Compare NASA's budget with that of the Dept of Health and Human Services. In light of what NASA has accomplished shouldn't we all then be completely healthy?
For military things, I would agree NASA has some benefit, but none of these programs about “exploring the universe” has anything to do with that.
What does the International Space Station have to do with our defense? Everything done there is shared with Russia and other countries.
You say, “The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history. That is worth doing collectively as a nation.” I say, “Fine, then go underwater and create vast cities there.” I mean, how can anyone justify colonizing outer space somewhere when we don’t even have a city under our own ocean?
Get your head out of the clouds and stop justifying gross spending by government “just because.”
Compare NASA's budget with that of the Dept of Health and Human Services. In light of what NASA has accomplished shouldn't we all then be completely healthy?
“Get your head out of the clouds and stop justifying gross spending by government “just because.””
I am never “just because” on anything this serious.
Exloration of frontiers of all kinds is critical for our nation’s future.
It is why any of us are here at all.
China is flying people now.
Perhaps we should stand down and let them dominate the high frontier? let them inspire their youth?
let them exploit lunar helium 3 and future revolutionary energy sources?
No thanks. God no. Hell no.
Astronaut Story Musgrave.....
“We have been a frontier culture. We were born out of exploration, we were born out of adventure. We were born out of the plains and the mountains. We’ve been a very physical kind of culture. And so, if you look at adventure, if you look at exploration, if you look at immersion in nature, a physical culture, and all those things, you can see directly how space flight relates to the way America has been born and how it evolved.”
“You have to keep pushing the frontier not
just because it’s there, but because that’s how we find things that end up changing humanity,” -Paul Hill, Mission Control