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Originally Posted by peter12
I personally question the need for the space program. It's extremely costly, dangerous, and awful for the environment. Surprisingly useless to us as a species too. Why do we feel the need, this last half-century, to escape this beautiful earth?
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the ignorance of this statement is astounding. There are so many technologies born out of the space program that impact every day life. Medicine, robotics, communication, transportation, defence, etc