There are several pros and cons of space travel. Pros for space travel include scientific resserch. many common household items were developed because of space travel, among them, velcrow, memory...
The space shuttle only goes into Earth orbit, no other place, ever. It can't go to the Moon as it is too heavy for available rockets to take it there, and there is no air on the Moon for its wings to...
Because people have a desire to travel in space and live in space. Science also has a reason to be in space. Many experiment are done in space and the moon ladings were an attempt to find out more...