Perhaps those of us who enjoy it should be the ones to chip in to fix it. I can't see taking food off my neighbor's table to fix the toys of my hobby.
Always should be mentioned. We will find our precious country left in the dust of history--a footnote--if we don't advance at least as fast as the new contenders. There is a big challenge from the EU, and of course China keeps building and building at their snail's pace. Ignoring space development on the public sector level is a public crime. We're not going to retire to our single-family vegetable gardens and expect to survive in the decades ahead. Survival at least, and preeminence if possible should be our goal. We won't survive if we don't compete. National survival is implied at least in the Constitution.
> I remain unconvinced that any space exploration -- much less the expense associated with human space exploration -- is Constitutional
So you think national defense is unConstitutional?
Space exploration is Defense spending and therefore constitutional. If we can control the gravity well, we can control the world (Likewise if the Red Chinese control the gravity well, they control the world).
Griffith stars as a junkyard owner who builds a space ship from his scrap pile in order to retreive valuable parts left on the moon by American Astronauts.
Sci-Fi becomes reality ?
Constitutional schmonstitutional.
Griffith stars as a junkyard owner who builds a space ship from his scrap pile in order to retreive valuable parts left on the moon by American Astronauts.
Sci-Fi becomes reality ?
SPace exploration will benifit us all. One day we will need to leave this planet. What if a Extinction Level Event happened? We also need to militarize space and prevent hostile nations like the EU and China from having ANY access to space.
>>> While I remain unconvinced that any space exploration -- much less the expense associated with human space exploration -- is Constitutional <<<<
Better read your Constitutional once more.
Space exploration is one of the few things the Fed. gov. does that is mandated by the Constitution.