doubleplusundead

Goober says:

Veesh;

Can you come up with a good reason why we should be paying massive amounts of money to send a select few men into orbit? What benefit are we netting from that?

If you want to talk about the future of space travel and saving the species once Earth is used up, I doubt very much that sending 6 men into low earth orbit is the goal we need to aspire to, especially at untold billions per man sent.

Give it to private enterprise and let them figure out a way to make money off of space. Then, and ONLY then, will you see the big advancements. Until then, no amount of government money burning is going to result in any great acheivements any time soon. We could give them trillions and we’d just get the space shuttle. Oh, wait, we already did…

My guess is that the advancements in inter-planetary travel won’t come until some mining company figures out how to put a meteor into orbit and mine it for whatever… Then we’ll get our trips to the moon for cheap. hell, your new mining company employer will probably pay for your trip.