“...the benefits to this country and the world in technological advances will more than pay for the costs...”
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I want to see your math.
I want to see your math.
There is no math. Benefits to mankind from technological advances cannot easily be quantified or planned. Some take place years after the normal election cycle in our Congress.
There are a myriad of technological advances that can be traced to NASA (and DoD) R&D. Many applications have no relationship to the intended applied R&D. They are unplanned.
Unfortunately our country has be dumbed down for so many years, that the concept is foreign to most. That is, it was difficult years ago to connect the dots. Today it is impossible. There was a time when the NSF was looking into the benefits of applied R&D to the population at large. I do not know what and whether NSF is exploring this avenue.
Look to your screen. Without the space program of the past you would not be online reading my post.
Spending a $hundred billion on space will put the US into a lot better economic condition than spending that same $hundred billion on supporting another generation of welfare dependents.