re long term human missions in jgladu jgladu bcm tmc edu grungy writes in article apr wisipc weizmann ac il ward pashosh wisdom weizmann ac il ward paul wrote if you want people to back the space program it must be a good thing in and of itself i think we should tell them about the things that they are using now that are spinoffs of the space program that is the only way you can prove its worth to them and they vote and pay taxes too the continued existence of the space program relies upon that money i have to agree with ward the problem with your approach is they add up what you can reasonably claim as spin offs add up what s been spent on space and then come back with something like you spent x billion for that wouldn t it be better just to spend the money on direct research and forget all this space stuff we could have got all that stuff a lot cheaper that way space is wasteful and inefficient then they cancel your funding and spend it studying mating rituals of new guinea tribesmen or something insisting on perfect safety is for people who don t have the balls to live in the real world mary shafer nasa ames dryden fred mccall dseg ti com i don t speak for others and they don t speak for me
