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Originally Posted by gdogghenrikson
I believe NASA is a huge waste of money...WHO CARES WHAT IS IN OUTER SPACE!!!! the U.S. should use that money for better schools, or to feed the poor, pay off the national debt, cure for AIDS, something worthwhile to our country.
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NASA receives for it’s funding what amounts to something like half of 1 percent of the national budget. Not to mention that space exploration has led to the development of lots of technology and knowledge that is invaluable in education and medical (and other areas of) research.
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and it will take 10 years to get there, but my theory is China or germany or some other country will launch a rocket in 5 years that can get there is 3 or so years so buy the time the U.S. gets there the other country will have been there, collected data and be heading home!
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If they can build an engine that could go that fast good for them!
I'll take a dozen! :hmm: In the around 50 years of space exploration the US has been the ONLY country to launch probes beyond the inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars). The farthest the Russians or the ESA has been is Mars and half of those missions have failed. Yet all our deep space missions have succeeded beyond expectations, that says something about our infrastructure and knowledge.