Re: I seriously would like to know (Score 1)

Go watch Apollo 13. In fact there's a very good BBC documentary on the iplayer right now about how the US "WON" the space race but then promptly lost. Because once they had the moon, there was no public support for the huge amounts of money required for space. Matter of fact, the only reason the shuttle ever got funded was because of D.O.D. money which funded it as a bus for top secret satellites. Then the pressure of D.O.D requirements led to Challenger (bbc horizon has a good hour on the shuttle) and the D.O.D started to go back to rockets because the Shuttle wasn't a bus. And then you get budget problems again... heck I want to know, why is all this money putting people in space when we need to fix the earth?