It creates jobs on Urf, and provides research for improved life here. Sounds like a pretty socialist justification to me.
As long as the technology is immediately ported to entrepreneurs and industry, why not? More and more space companies are appearing thanks in part to original research as NACA and NASA.
88 posted on 12/01/2008 6:39:16 PM PST by SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)