The article frames it as though everyone who is skeptical in this new space race is also anti-astronomy from the examples it uses. I think this is a false prem

The article frames it as though everyone who is skeptical in this new space race is also anti-astronomy from the examples it uses. I think this is a false premise. Plenty of people love astronomy and the insights it has given to other worlds and ours, but are skeptic of what building and expending rockets can do for the world, except launch monitoring sattelites, tourism, and eventually the ability to build starships.