I have a feeling you are neither an engineer, a scientist or a highly skilled technologist. Tell me I am wrong. For those of us who have worked in these fields, the space program has yielded scientific breakthroughs which could never have been achieved otherwise.
I would rather have tax payer money spent on advancing technology than more food stamps for a population whose biggest health problem is obesity.
About as wrong as you can get.
the space program has yielded scientific breakthroughs which could never have been achieved otherwise.
Utter NASA Koolaid. BE SPECIFIC, List a dozen - other than the ability to build large rocket engines and the technology to handle cryogenic fluids. IF THEY'RE SO MANY YOU SHOLD HAVE NO PROBLEM Remember you set an impossible bar when you said "which could never have been achieved otherwise" Oh and do us both a favor and check the origins of the so-called space program discoveries at some site OTHER than NASA. There is a NASA site that shamelessly claims the originations of such things as velcro, transistors, etc.