space programs increase our knowledge base, lead to new discoveries, lead to new tech, etc. all these things can increase jobs and make our lives better, just like they did the first time we went to the moon. quite frankly we need to be spending more money on space programs.....lots more money. if only we had a president with balls who was willing to give nasa and private companies say 100 billion dollars annually instead of a measly 17, we could probably have been to mars, manned mission-wise, years ago. as well, we could be well onto the path of establishing a colony there. but alas it is not so, "america, world police" is much more important i guess.

I totally agree that our use of money has been awful. It seems to defy logic and really makes you wonder if the powers that be are really trying to help the situation or purposefully bankrupt the nation.

However, I don't feel like the money given to NASA is all that bad. It's quite insignificant when you compare it the resources devoured by the war machine. I was a crew chief on F-15s in the Air Force, and that experience really humbled me. I knew that the military used a lot of money, but I suppose I never really grasped it until I saw it first hand. I think our military is important, but at the same time I always found myself questioning whether or not we were using our money wisely. My opinion is that much of that money would be better used on our own citizens.

But thanks for the thread. Never stop questioning.

heck, i'd rather see NASA get the money then spending it for HAARP and sending our boy off to die in a war they have no business being involved in.

Lets take all the billions of dollar we are spending on these military wastes and give it to NASA. At least if we get to the Moon with great video and alien proof it will be far more worth it than this stupid war.

I would rather give money to NASA than to give it to those crooks that got million dollar bonuses that put our economy in the position it's in in the first place. At least we will eventually see a result one day by giving it to NASA through new technology and the jobs they create.

Hell yer I would start doleing out money out of my own wallet to NASA if they start laying out the truth with no edits! It's the future of mankind in there hands but they would rather play politics.

They are trying to lay out the truth to us God love em "Mars Bacteria" Once they do that the rest will be easy

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The country can not afford to give NASA funds to re-develop space rockets, while also providing the Department Of Defence funds to develop anti-gravity TR-3B black triangle ships too. Obviously, the money goes to the development of the superior technology - the TR-3B.

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Screw NASA. The first moon landing was a hoax, and that is why they are trying so hard to do it again. If it wasn't fraud then why don't they just reproduce the BS results one more time. Drag out an old 286 which had 10,000 times the computing capacity of the BS "Moon Landing" computers, build an old Saturn rocket, and do it again with the same stuff that they said they did it before? Why? Because it was all a hoax, and you bought it.

While I'm against stimulus spending in general, it could have been spent on the very successful small business innovative research program (SBIR), that's been a marvelous incubator for high tech. small businesses for years. It would have been a much better bang for the buck.

Small business hire the lion's share of our population and bear the brunt of our stupid over regulation and taxes.

i agree. to us it may seem like a lot, but to gov't agencies, $570 million is very little.

Plus, if it'll lead to new discoveries, then it's worth it right?

Well the main problem with the Economy is to few have to much. No one can be a customer of new products if they do not make enough to even eat and pay the rent while working a 40 hour week.

I congratulate people like Bill Gates but all that money he has tied up is doing nothing for the average person or even him really. If he had taken a bit less of the profits his Janitor might be able to buy a car this year... get it?

Not hating successful people just saying the free markets have created money sink people who have "won" leaving the rest to drivel in poverty even while working hard day to day.

Originally posted by capgirl

I love for us to explore space, and to expand our knowledge of it, but isn't it more important to get our country back on track before spending so much money on space programs? I'm just stating my opinion. What do you all think?

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Upon reading this post, I couldn't help but wonder if you'd prefer your Gov't to have spent that money on the wars it's currently funding instead?

That's probably where the money would go if it wasn't going to NASA.

How do we spend half our stimulus on the moon program just 9 months ago, but last month Obama said we aren't interested in the moon anymore..TFOH