If there is no value in going to the moon, then private business won’t try to go there.
I don’t see where in the constitution it says the federal government can spend billions of dollars on exploration, no matter how cool it is.
The first time, it was about national defense — or at least you could justify it as critical to our national defense.
I love the idea of my country being the first to explore things, I just don’t know where the constitution makes that the job of our government. Sometimes the constitution stands in MY way of what I would love to see, just as it stands in the way of others who want government to overstep it’s bounds.
That’s why we have the constitution, to stop government from doing any old thing a majority of the people think would be cool.
Of course you are an anti nasa troll, since you are using one of there more popular arguements on FR. Does not matter whether you are consevative or not.
And BTW it is more than ever a matter of national defence, unless you speak Chinese and are working for the PLA, of course.