[maine-iac7]

You say: “manned space flight is a waste of money that takes away funds for real missions that come up with real discoveries.”

geeze - where have you been for the past 30 years?
I double dare you to read about all the spin-off technology that we use, benefit from and ‘couldn't do without’ that are a DIRECT result of the space industry.

http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html

[Brakeman]

I’m not talking abuot 30 years ago, I’m talking about today.

It costs over a billion dollars to launch a space shuttle...and the space station is what, $50 billion and counting?

The rover missions to Mars were much cheaper, and more beneficial to science.