> Now anyone who disagrees with you is dishonest.
No. thosewho say dishonest things, like "the fact is that space exploration is a waste of money," are dishonest.
> How many tries did it take for them to get a couple of rovers on Mars two rovers for 5 tries or something like that wasn't it?
WRONG. Three rovers launched, three rovers landed, three rovers successful.
If you can't even be trusted to deal with simple, basic facts like this, any other opinion you express on the value of space exploration is in serious doubt.
Wrong. Not counting the early failures the more recent ones are:
1 Polar lander failed
2 climate observer failed (orbit only)
3 observer failed (orbit only)
So one lander and two orbiters failed in the last six NASA missions to Mars Ie those to mars since 92. I didn't notice the taxpayers getting any of their mony back. Now at a cost of about $300,000,000 each not counting the infrastructure burden I'd say those "purty pitchers" of Martian rocks and dirt came at quite a cost