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14 inventions! That is amazing. Plus, of course, velcro and Tang. Plus a bag of rocks.

The projected lifetime cost of the Shuttle program alone is $173 Billion. I don’t know the cost of the earlier programs.

That is roughly 10 billion per invention. I’d love to have my share back.

Noble? I hope you typed that in a hushed voice with Star Trek music in the background. Art is way cheaper.

I do favor missile technology, which should be the purpose of NASA.

14 inventions! That is amazing. Plus, of course, velcro and Tang. Plus a bag of rocks.

The projected lifetime cost of the Shuttle program alone is $173 Billion. I don’t know the cost of the earlier programs.

That is roughly 10 billion per invention. I’d love to have my share back.

First, that was a partial list, so untwist your panties a little. Second, that is only a partial list of everyday inventions, not the sum total of all knowledge acquired through the program.

Third, are you seriously telling me that you think the space program is a complete waste of time and money? Are you serious? You think we should just stop altogether? I would feel sorry for anyone unimaginative enough to feel that way. Perhaps the space program would be better served if it were privatized, but canceling it would be pathetic. However, the space program will never be completely privatized because there are too many military implications. Allowing another country's space program to flourish while ours died would be suicidal.

Fourth, you should be complaining about the hundreds of billions wasted by our government on entitlement and pork programs, not to mention that our current presidential office holder just tossed untold billions to irresponsible companies who have bad business models so that he could engineer a hostile federal takeover. Crying about 173 billion spent on a program that actually has valuable returns is asinine by comparison.

Amen,

Think of sending people outside the solar system? I don’t think people have any grasp of the vast distances. Wright brothers flying to the moon is walk in the park compared to flying to nearest star (which has no planets by the way).

Want to travel to a star. Get in a space ship and fly into the sun.

Don’t even mention the Hubble telescope. For 100 times less money we could have better telescope here on earth. Kind of like the tang invention.