Re:Spark that interest (Score -1)

Yes space-research benefiting tele-medecine, deeps ea exporation, etc is a good thing... But think about how much time, money, and effort go into the parts not related to these. (such as insulating tiles,etc). I think many people's complain about space research is that while it produces a lot of good stuff, it might have been cheaper (on multiple levels) to more directly research what we would have got. Then the rest of the money could go to medical research.... Little lost, and a lot more gained. I also realize that many good things resulting from the space program did not have sufficient drive behind them initially to merit their own research. Thus the value in the space program is that it catalyzes research in fields where such catalysts cannot be justified, but whereby the application of such produces important results... Given that, there must be a better and less wasteful way.