This is almost exactly the point addressed in Dr. Ernst Stuhlingher (then the associate director of NASA) in this elegant response: http://www.lettersofnote.co

This is almost exactly the point addressed in Dr. Ernst Stuhlingher (then the associate director of NASA) in this elegant response: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html Which was written to a Zambia based nun who asked how this funding could be justified given the numerous starving children she saw everyday.