Stay away from any hotly debated issue. I once wrote (what I thought was) a very sound paper debunking creationism. Turned out that the TA that was marking half the papers was a reborn fundamentalist christian. Got a D+. (later contested and remarked by the prof to a B+)
Space exploration is a good topic. You can make good arguments either way without running into a bias. In an ideal academic environment, it shouldn't matter, but there are few such environments.
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