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Will a Mars mission feed the hungry, house the homeless or educate disadvantaged children? But the most important question is the one no one is asking. Why is this any business of the government's?

LOL! He worries about space exploration being part of government activities, but doesn't even question the social programs.

Space exploration has a tentative relation to defense, so I think it's on more solid constitutional grounds than programs for education, feeding the chil'run, etc.

Spending money on the space program always becomes a rorschach test for liberals where they can supplant the miniscule money spent on space and plug it into their favorite socialist utopia scheme.

How about this for a rationale, let's spend ten times more on space exploration and when the next utopian comes along trying to spend money on their latest socialist scheme we can say "sorry, no money for that!" Works for me......

He worries about space exploration being part of government activities, but doesn't even question the social programs.

Great flash of insight. Really. There is something specious about these anti-space zealots.