The whole six-decade-long U.S. space boondoggle, from 1958 to 2019, has cost this nation at least $601 billion. And what can we say we have achieved for this vast sum? Well, freeze-dried food, Tang, computer chips, memory foam, and the burials of 23 American citizens and one Israeli. There have been no significant scientific achievements and very early on in the game to sell space missions as carrying out anti-gravity experiments NASA ran out of even interesting trivial observations.
No significant information has been learned about achieving something truly important, like how humans could permanently live on nearby planets or asteroids, except that it can’t be done.
~ Kirkpatrick Sale, "
60 Years of Wasting Money in Space,"
LewRockwell.com, July 18, 2019
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