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So you insist on negating the benefits of not only engineering, but also science? :) The question of what benefits space program brought to humanity is old and

by avmich 3y ago

So you insist on negating the benefits of not only engineering, but also science? :) The question of what benefits space program brought to humanity is old and well known, I'll only remind of one of it. The modern generation of space engineers and explorers was born and raised with the awe of the Apollo program achievements - of man setting foot on another celestial body for the first time. Statistically many people working on space developments came to the industry inspired by the spirit of Apollo.

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
You are defending your beloved toys (rockets) and those who make them, but you should make a list of consumer stuff which we have today thanks to space: I can only think of GPS and Sat TV but it's not like we could not find other ways to do it. Namely some location system with Cell towers and sensors within cars and at the side of roads, and Sat TV well cable and terrestrial signal work just fine. All the other stuff including the indirect benefits that people always love to cite could be easily achieved by throwing the same amount of money at basic research At the end of the day this is about the very childish love for rockets, which is also very bizzarre considering that the odds of riding on one are so slim that you can only watch others doing it, also very unrewarding considering that you don't feel anything and you are trapped in a giant condom moving into the vacuum as opposed to a plane or a glider or a motorcycle or a bike where you can feel the feedback from the air and have a sense of relative movement due to stuff around you.