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**Aleksis** · 02-04-2010, 02:16 PM

You'd think otherwise if you thought of all of the wasteful things this does.

Though an astronaut's job is to explore space & science, it just seems a waste to me to keep on sending that thing to outer space. What are we gaining from it at all?

What wasteful things? Do you have a problem with just manned space flight, or all of NASA in general?

At worst, it is a high tech jobs program that keeps tens of thousands of cutting edge industrial and technology jobs in the US.

That money isn't being sent into space - its going right back here.

02-04-2010, 02:16 PM	#8
Aleksis Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 447 Senior Member	You'd think otherwise if you thought of all of the wasteful things this does. Though an astronaut's job is to explore space & science, it just seems a waste to me to keep on sending that thing to outer space. What are we gaining from it at all? What wasteful things? Do you have a problem with just manned space flight, or all of NASA in general? At worst, it is a high tech jobs program that keeps tens of thousands of cutting edge industrial and technology jobs in the US. That money isn't being sent into space - its going right back here.
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