NASA has always gone for the children. There's massive cooperation between NASA and the public schools, all over the country. NASA has, also, always been trying

NASA has always gone for the children. There's massive cooperation between NASA and the public schools, all over the country. NASA has, also, always been trying to market themselves. Visit any tourist trap and it's all about spin-offs, and dreams, and here's why we're doing this ... over and over and over, the same spiel. Years ago I wondered why they were constantly trying to remind and justify the whys of their existence; now it's pretty clear. When I was ~ 11 years old, my 5th grade classroom in rural Texas received some tomato seeds which had been exposed to space, and -- for science! -- I and other classmates grew some in our backyards and we reported back about how these plants grew vs normal ones. Many other classes did the same thing at the time. Oh, by the way ... that was 24 years ago.