[mrsmith]

“As a friend of mine said, it is nice that we now have the technology to take a photograph of a place we actually visited 42 years ago!”

Well, the media cried “Why are we spending money out there when we can spend it on things here?”

So, we now have a 42 years’ mature welfare state instead of a 42 years’ mature space industry.

In hindsight we made the wrong, wrong, wrong choice.

[chimera]

I was "debating" a liberal about this once and he was decrying that $25 billion had been spent on Apollo over a ten year period. I asked him if he was also ready to decry the fact that in just one year the ADC program (welfare) spent $30 billion.

It was a classic, deer-in-the-headlights moment. After a few seconds of spluttering, his only "counter argument" was "No, no, don't say that!" As if speaking the truth were something forbidden to say to a liberal (reminded me of how vampires react to being shown a cross).

[Explorer89]

The name of this photography mission is the Lunar Reconnaissance Mission (LRO), and its purpose was to create a detailed map of the moon for the then-soon-to-be return to the moon. Then this Administration cancelled Exploration. So we get the pictures, but not the people :(