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Originally Posted by hunnychile
It's all just a story of how great the USA "Used" to be. We can't afford all these missions when kids are hungry and unable to get a proper education. Plus, how about all the sick people who need SOME kind of Health Care in some fashion?
None of us need to see what the weather is like on Mars.
Amen.
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Our space program budget from Kennedy's 1962 speech promising to put a man on the moon to today costs as much as 16 months of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. NASA's budget this year is 80% of what air conditioning for troops in those wars cost this year. The space program is not the problem.