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Quite possibly. But I suspect the full benefits are pretty hard to assess from our armchairs. I imagine there's a fair amount of useful technology that got dev
by gmac 3y ago
Quite possibly. But I suspect the full benefits are pretty hard to assess from our armchairs.
I imagine there's a fair amount of useful technology that got developed along the way, and a bunch of global cultural value (and US soft power) over several decades derived from having putting a person on the moon.
- pfdietz 3y agoThose benefiting from the spending have incentive to exaggerate the benefits up to the limit of plausibility. So, as a rule of thumb, expect the actual benefits to be less than the claimed benefits. It's certainly the case that many of the supposed benefits of the Space Shuttle (and the Space Station) didn't materialize. The Space Shuttle has the additional "negative benefit" of having retarded development of US expendable boosters. Something like an expendable Falcon 9 could have been created decades earlier, had policy been rational.