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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
As has been mentioned before, this is not the only time cut backs have been made, it is a continued thing and there will be more and more cut backs so to make it appear that it is only 1 program is a little misleading.
Further more, it may appear to be a luxury at this point and time, but there will be a time when we would need the space program on many levels. How long down the road, don;t know. Could be tomorrow could be 500 years.
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Just one consideration is the potentially vast wealth to be accumlated from the Moon's minerals. Add in space tourism, the spinoffs from the technology to achieve these goals etc.
Not unlike sports you need a top league where the best are to encourage those starting out and in the process to become top notch. When they have so much other money going to rubbish this sure isn't where I would start cutting back. In an ever more tech world they should be attempting to be at the very top of this field --not cutting back.