[maine-iac7]

you say: “So all that money that created 10’s of thousands of high paying technical jobs and pumped many hundreds of millions of consumer $$$ into local economies was money wasted... yeah I see the similarity between the Shuttle Program and say the section 8 housing programs of HUD...
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Well, let's see - heres’s a link to all the valuable spinoffs from the space program - many of which we use and enjoy everyday with not a clue as to where it was developed:

Hers’ one link where you can explore some of the thousands of things we enjoy today - advantages in technology, computer sciences, aviation, medicine, everyday living - as direct spinoffs from NASA

http://www.nasatech.com/Spinoff/Spinoff2005/contents.html

Would you post a link to the corresponding advantages of “say the section 8 housing programs of HUD” that you compare to our Space Program?

(an aside: I, for one, am not comfortable to leaving the control of Space to China, India, Russia - etc. Guess a lot of you are.)

[Atlas Sneezed]

Hers’ one link where you can explore some of the thousands of things we enjoy today - advantages in technology, computer sciences, aviation, medicine, everyday living - as direct spinoffs from NASA...

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Please explain how the billions did more spent by NASA than they would have if spent by those who earned the money.