Video: Mindblowing Shuttle Launch

[Hobbes]

My point being, that the Federal Govt. doesn't have the Constitutional authority to issue Welfare checks, but if we are going to spend our tax money on things not enumerated in the Constitution, then Space exploration is a much better use of the money!

In your, and my, opinion. Yes
But once you start down that road you go wherever the road takes you, not where you might necessarily want to go

 

[been]

In your, and my, opinion. Yes
But once you start down that road you go wherever the road takes you, not where you might necessarily want to go

are we talking about............aliens

 

[458 SOCOM]

That's just awesome!
I can't wait for the next round of space exploration.

 

[Hobbes]

are we talking about............aliens

 

[HMFIC]

I've been longing to get back to the stone ages. That pesky space program sure did get in the way though...

 

[Dale00]

Oh, it's really a military program?

Seems like a spy satellite pointed towards earth is one thing, and a Hubble space telescope pointed towards another galaxy is something else entirely.

Whatever. Rationalize it any way you want.

If China dominates space, we are in trouble. We need a strong space effort for defense purposes. The technology that the Hubble Space Telescope represents has military applications. We need to keep on being the best. Obama's anti-space policy is ill advised.

China's Space Advances Worry US Military

The rise of China's space program may pose a potentially serious military threat to the United States down the road, top American intelligence officials contend.

China continues to develop technology designed to destroy or disable satellites, which makes the United States and other nations with considerable on-orbit assets nervous. Even Beijing's ambitious human spaceflight plans are cause for some concern, since most space-technology advances could have military applications, officials say.

"The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China's growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries and enhances China's conventional military capabilities," Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, wrote in testimony presented before the U.S. Senate's Armed Services Committee Feb. 16.

Burgess was delivering the DIA's annual assessment of threats to U.S. security and interests around the globe. ...

http://www.space.com/14697-china-space-program-military-threat.html