This week is the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and wandering around I found John Stossel's blog post about Clumsy Spending that lead me to Cafe Hayek's post called Moon Struck ... which both suggest future trips to the moon (at least now) would be wasteful.
I'm torn...
Basically, I consider NASA one of the most useful endeavors our government has undertaken.
But, do we need to send two more human beings to the moon to spend a few hours collecting rocks to keep Earth-bound scientists studying rocks?
Not really. No, I don't think so.
Still, I consider that other programs like NASA's Near-Earth Object Program would benefit from the science and technology NASA accumulates. Learning how to deflect hazardous NEOs could very well save all life on the planet.
Then again, we could ignore the possibility of a global killer impacting our planet during our lifetimes because if the Cosmos dealt us a massive asteroid anytime soon we go extinct anyway and politics will no longer matter.
Oh, but, I do appreciate NASA's providing public domain images. That is useful. ;)
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon (7/20/1969) during the Apollo 11 exravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
I'm torn...
Basically, I consider NASA one of the most useful endeavors our government has undertaken.
But, do we need to send two more human beings to the moon to spend a few hours collecting rocks to keep Earth-bound scientists studying rocks?
Not really. No, I don't think so.
Still, I consider that other programs like NASA's Near-Earth Object Program would benefit from the science and technology NASA accumulates. Learning how to deflect hazardous NEOs could very well save all life on the planet.
Then again, we could ignore the possibility of a global killer impacting our planet during our lifetimes because if the Cosmos dealt us a massive asteroid anytime soon we go extinct anyway and politics will no longer matter.
Oh, but, I do appreciate NASA's providing public domain images. That is useful. ;)
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon (7/20/1969) during the Apollo 11 exravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera.
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