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Which would be a salient point if _nothing_ of value came out of the space program. That's about as far from reality as you can get. The primary, chartered,
by themafia 1y ago
Which would be a salient point if _nothing_ of value came out of the space program. That's about as far from reality as you can get.
The primary, chartered, goal of NASA is to create a commercial space industry. Ignoring this is a sign of extreme immaturity.
- xnx 1y agoSpace exploration is great, but manned missions are dictated by vanity and congressional pork more than scientific needs.
- ApolloFortyNine 1y agoYea, it was an insane achievement in 1969, but today the technology exists, it's really just the money that's missing.
- themafia 1y ago> but manned missions are dictated by vanity We were last on the moon in 1972. We haven't been back since. That's nothing even remotely like "vanity." I think there's a vanity involved in making this type of comment. > and congressional pork If the public wants it then it's not pork. > more than scientific needs. "Scientific needs" is not a well defined category. Those who proclaim to represent it while expecting it to hold a higher value than the will of the voters are misanthropic bullies.
- notahacker 1y agoThe thing is, NASA has already a great job creating a commercial space industry, much of it since the Space Race. The more salient question is whether manned return to the moon missions on vanity timelines are a better way to boost the commercial space industry than the research programmes that got slashed.