Engage brain before operating keyboard. This was the point of the post:
But a lot did come out of it. Teflon is a common example cited. Now the vemical, CF4, was known years before the space program. But it is rather inert and couldn't be bonded to anything. A bonding method was found for the space program, then used commercially.
Integrated circuits used to cost hundreds of dollars for a 4, 5, or 10 transistor chip. The only customers for ICs were the military who needed lightweight electronics for jets and (TRA LA) NASA, who needed lightweight electronics for spacecraft. All the early development money for ICs was provided by DOD and NASA. Now hundreds of billions of dollars of those circuits are sold every year.
not a "photo op". Although we did get a rather famous photo of the American flag planted on the moon.
Now I'm sure that you, being one of the recipients would much rather see that money go into seeing welfare mamas raise drug dealers.
Would you like to see the US shell out $300 to $500 billion for a photo-op?
Would you like to see the US shell out $300 to $500 billion for R&D? So that it can keep its technological edge instead of falling back into the third world when the Chinese and Indians take our current "high tech" jobs?
Who knows? If things get desperate enough, even you might work. And then there'll be a job for you.
There is not a compelling scientific case to have a manned flight to mars
There wasn't for the Explorer satellites either, was there? Or the Gemini flights? Or Apollo?
there are many other things on earth that need doing.
There always are, aren't there? If Queen Isabella had accepted that excuse, we'd still be in Europe.
This is pure political grandstanding
But
First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind
wasn't?
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a long-term boost for a handful of prime contractors who would be on the receiving end of this government gravy train.
But that wasn't true of the that program that liberal icon JFK launched, right?
If you are in favor of big, wasteful and pointless government that has no ability to restrain itself from using enormous sums of borrowed money for political grandstanding, then you have exactly the government you want right now.
Good. I was going to vote against Bush. You may have switched me back.
Oh, this is in that JFK speech too. Too bad they didn't do it.
Secondly, an additional 23 million dollars, together with 7 million dollars already available, will accelerate development of the Rover nuclear rocket. This gives promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the Moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself.
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