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In response to Robert M., I'd like to say that if he would like the 1/10th of a penny of his tax dollar that goes to NASA, I would be glad to refund it myself. I find it amazing that NASA accomplishes as much as it does considering the percentage of each tax dollar NASA actually receives from tax payers.

If you're looking for a black hole to throw your money into you might consider all of the pork barrel projects passed each year.

Virginia B.  | Friday, February 29, 2008 |  01:36 PM

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This was absolutley fascinating! Thank you!

Nancy  | Thursday, February 28, 2008 |  07:40 AM

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It's the same propaganda that NASA has been using since the Apollo moon landings to justify the obscene amount of money being spent at a time when the people are wanting for decent schools, medicine, food and so many other luxuries. What people don't realize id that most of the products were under development anyway. NASA got to use them first because they had the money (our tax money) to pay for them.

What they don't mention is the billions of dollars spent for things that were fiscal failures and never will benefit most people. Things like the space shuttle that was develop for NASA so the military could have some for their use. It never was going to be cost effective as was originally promised.

A new moon landing program is another black hole where money pours into the aerospace industries and we get little in return. We have more important projects to spend money on like health care, energy conservation and to rebuild our nation's failing infrastructure.

Robert M.  | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 |  08:10 PM

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