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Old 04-16-2010, 01:38 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by ardeegee View Post
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."
Well said, ardeegee. Many of our current generation of scientists—in all fields of science, including medicine—originally became interested in science because of the manned space program. Kids may not understand the importance of studying the human genome, but their imaginations can and have been sparked by manned exploration of other worlds.
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