As technology has been developed significantly, space exploration is a major part of human future plan. However, some argue that space exploration is only about the national pride but not international effort, which i think that is not right, due to the potential opportunities that space discovery can give to humanity.
To begin with, many countries have taken part in the space race where they created technologies and aircrafts that can lead mankind to the outer space. Had it not been for the initial reason which is national price that boosted the race fascinatingly to create advanced technologies and produced a later cooperation between those countries to continue the developement. It is national pride that transcends other motivations to grow this sector of science so fast and developes a stepping stone to further experiment. Because of this solid base, nations can unite and make international effort. For instance, the international space station, ISS which is the greatest space station of humanity is the production of the cooperation between various nations.
In the future, space discovery will become more and more popular owing to the innovations in technologies and engineering as well as the need to solve the population boom and accommodation problems. Space travel services such as commercial space travel or settlement on other planets will grow significantly due to the enormous demand to solve the
housing problems as well as global warming. Major companies such as SpaceX has developed rockets and spaceships which has the potential to be reused after a space mission which not only reduce the cost for a journey to space but also create chances to make commercial space travel possible. If this comes true, we can enlarge our civillization into a multi-planet one where traveling between planets is considered as daily flights and interplanetary communication networks will be operated the in a same way to social media.
In conclusion, space exploration is not only about national pride but also accounts for international efforts to solve global issues. Because of giant motivations, space exploration will adapt the requirements to become common among ordinary citizens of the Earth.