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Originally Posted by HarryT
In what way has the space programme "failed"? It's been an enormous practical benefit to everybody in the world, from weather forecasting to GPS navigation to satellite communications.
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The MANNED space program (and that is what this conversation has been about) is failed because the US went from Apollo to spending 30 years wasting time piddling around in LEO in a glorified delivery truck. And now we are soon to not even have the delivery truck.
But what I was referring to in that reply, of course, was the poster trotting out the creeky old hat that "science X should not be done until every problem on Earth is solved first."