Mamzelle, the put upon taxpayer wouldn’t save one single dime if NASA shut down tomorrow, and you should know that.
Increases in government handouts would swallow it up in seconds.
We landed on the Moon in 1969. Today, 47 years just a couple of months ago, we’ve done essentially nothing of import since.
We should have had a colony on the Moon and Mars by now. And if we did, we would have discovered ways to overcome some of the major problems we face in space.
Where are we today, with your robots? Are we any closer to colonizing space? No! We not one foot closer.
We should have had a space plane in the late 1990s, or at least by 2005. We’re 11 years beyond that now, and headed nowhere.
I don’t really care about space probes. Yes we needed a few to confirm certain parameters we needed to overcome, but beyond that the expenditures on those probes might just as well have been burned in an incinerator here on earth.
Today we have no way of getting our people into space. We have marginal increases in knowledge that doesn’t really improve our route to space.
We have nothing!
And you’re proud of this and want more of it.
NO!
So sad you don’t care about space probes. Really, I am. As for NASA not costing me anything, it’s been turned over to a few egomaniacal oligarchs. The agency is not the agency anymore. The agency is just a shell. Space is about the billionaire chronies and their vanities and their “private” tourism projects—which are LEO! You want footprints on the planets to satisfy a fantasy —I want to send dispensable scouts first. I know we can’t send men without the technology of sending robots.