“Strategic placement of the United States on the high frontier is critical to our nations future existance as a global power.”
Oh Pajamas,
Different theme on the same lines of “ for the Children” “if it saves one life”.
NASA has sat down with the Defense Science Committe when? They then addressed the specific areas of scientific and technological advancement the US needs to maintain a credible and effective defense where? Then designed the NASA Space program around that goal?
Horse Crap..
Profligate spending is a Public Sector social disease.
NASA has the same clown spendthrift mentality running it today as the Military or todays “Social Services”.
It origins in the same gold plated mentality that builds 20 B2 Stealth Bombers at a billion dollars a piece.
Then looking for an application to justify the expenditure flies them 13,500 miles around the world to bomb a few 7th Century Mud Hut and Cave dwellers in Afganistan for whom an advanced air defense Grid consists of a Mosquito net over their straw mat.
NASA continueing to spend a fortune today to fly a few humans into space is on a par.
There was a time when doing so was at least politically in our interest.. That time has past.
Without fiscal responsibility our NASA endeavors will only help to sink the US Financially. We certainly will not be able to take any action based upon our findings. Unless we change or “leaders” spendthrift ways we will lack the resources to do so.
That will leave us an impoverished third rate power with no effective defense.
W
No disrespect, but far too many professional people I respect with deep experience in aerospace matters disagree with you.
I choose to agree with them over you because they have far more convincing arguments.
Your view is one of extremely limited government, and I suspect that it rejects nearly all things under the federal banner. Libertarian perhaps?