Comment & Debate
“Why are we wasting money in space?”. Everything2. August 1st, 2005 – “But the best thing that the Apollo program bought us was not a thing. The greatest benefit of Apollo was tens of thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of kids in the sixties and seventies who studied science. Human space exploration is the best advertising campaign imaginable for kids studying science! Learn your maths, we say with every rocket we launch from the cape, and you can be part of pioneering the stars! And those hundreds of thousands of kids are now hard at work, making our lives more enjoyable, safer and longer; curing cancer; working to understand and repair our environment; hard at work at GM and Ford inventing the next kind of engine that we’ll use in our cars when the oil runs out. Imagine running your car on hydrogen, Tim! That stuff makes top-fuel look like cooking oil!”