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Originally Posted by DumbHillbillies
Seems like a "luxury" expense for this country these days. The economy is in the tank, unemployment rate 10% and were spending billions just to say there is water vapor on the moon. With this water vapor we can develop fuel so one day they can gas up on the moon to discover water vapor on a planet or another moon. Great. Doesn't seem worth it to me but a lot a geeks/nerds would be out of work if it wasn't for NASA's space program.
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You know, that's what I don't get. Yes, the Apollo project cost billions of dollars; but it's not like we took several boxes of cash and shot them to the moon. The money spent (except for hardware that's no longer around) STAYED RIGHT HERE. Something like 400k workers on the project; all getting paid. Seems like that'd be a jobs program I could get behind.