why do we have to spend billons of dollers to send up rockets, and indanger peoples life?

Answer 1

They tell us a lot of reasons why we should but I think we should spend some on the poverty that we have in the U.S. The answer to your Question is we don't have to

Answer 2

Cause,Man By Spirit,Is An Adventurer,We Will Not Be confined To An Atmosphere,If The World Taries(Which I Doubt)We Will Eventually Conquer Intergalactic Travel And ExplorationGood Luck Kids We Built The Toys Now Play With Em

Answer 3

Who else will push the boundaries? Technological innovation comes from the pushing of boundaries from many fronts. Now while this may endanger the astronauts lives, this is a risk they are well aware of and take willingly to advance the state of human understanding. The Space Environment offers many many advantages in the fields of biomedical research and geophysical science that cannot be recreated on the surface. Now the argument has been that robots could run the same experiments on orbit as the humans could, but then we wouldn't understand he effects of weightlessness in the biological sense. To give an example, in space the human immune system nearly shuts down completely and blood pressure drops significantly. What if we could find what causes this effect and do the reverse, boosting our immune system to unheard of levels? However that is only a possibility, and I assume you are looking for practical. The ISS to date has developed incredible leaps in crystalline growth that has been used in the development of much more powerful cancer fighting drugs and AIDS immune suppression drugs. I could always quote the Apollo program for everyday devices like satellite TV and communications, microelectronics, polarizing sunglasses, Microwaves, and the space pen (yeah that was a waste of money, I'll give you that). The space program isn't about the immediate need for an answer really, because they are few and far between, but in the process of developing the technology and understanding to find that answer, new things are developed. It is these technologies that trickle down the ladder into business (since NASA patents are open for viewing and use) that creates new technologies and advances from new video games to better medical devices. This in turn creates jobs and then more income which is taxable which feeds back into the government. I hope my rambling may have changed your mind a bit, but actually I don't. Being critical of the government sponsored programs is what makes the people in them strive to do better and make things faster, better, and safer.

EDIT: As I posted this someone else said that we should spend this money on poverty instead of space. I counter by adding this, freeze dried and dehydrated food are main staples for living assitance and poverty programs because it never goes bad and can be airlifted and frieghted anywhere in the world and only requires water to make. This has helped to save the lives of billions world wide. Guess where the process of dehydrating and freeze drying foods came from... yup... the space program during Apollo.

Answer 4

We don't. NASA asked congress for the money and they gave it to them. Unfortunately NASA got a big head from the success of the Apollo program and thought that the Shuttle program will dazzle us even more. What can go wrong, NASA has the biggest collection of top scientists and engineers. Problem is that the management of NASA couldn't keep McDonald's in black if it was the only restaurant in Houston. We shouldn't have lost the only civilian (teacher) if the upper crust at NASA and Washington wanted to let Ronald Reagan brag about it in his State of the Union address.

Why do we have to spend billions of dollers to send troops to Iraq and have 500 times the American people killed and 20 times more wounded/crippled?
Answer: Oil and Israel. If it weren't for these 2 things. Iraq will be just like Congo (don't give a sh*#, they have nothin' we're interested in).

Answer 5

The expenditure on space exploration (8 billion) is dwarfed by military spending (543 billion). I might remind you that the government spends billions on feasability and research projects for weapons that are never mass-produced, or, when they are sent to the field, prove to be faulty or ineffective. Compared with domestic spending in other areas (1200+ billion), space exploration spending is minimal.

Space travel has resulted in countless advancements that you depend on every day of your life. The rigors of space inspire new developments in neglected areas of research, resulting in novel creations and unexpected advances.

To say that realizing the dream of human mastery of space is not worth a paltry half a percent of federal funding is ignorant, and stands againsts all scientific development and human achievement.

I'll leave you with these words, spoken by a Russian rocket scientist, and one of the earliest proponents of space travel;

"The earth is the cradle of mankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever"

~Tsiolovsky

Answer 6

Idiot.
Learn some grammer.
The space program is directly responsible for hundreds of new life saving drugs, medical procedures, computers, etc, etc, etc. The program operates on a shoestring and has a direct/indirect return on investment of at least 20 to 1. Any other govt. agency have that track record?

Answer 7

So that when the nuclear war occurs, which it will, Bush, Cheney, Rove & all the other top dogs and their families, can hop the next shuttle and live for a little while longer while the rest of us here on earth can sit and wonder what they did wrong.

Answer 8

Focus you also add excitement, AND because it's expensive, have a reason not to throw it away on the needy, and take the troops on an extended vacation to mars, I understand the weather there used to be quite nice, there was a large black bird with wings that it never used......figured out right away - didnt need em, Didn t fashion on the surface the need for anything but their placement indentifying the hierachy for sex and the struggle for fighting to keep it , so passions were perfected, One female made my life a living hell while perfecting my other passions for integrity and loyality, holdiing me at "bay" for 10000 years. she in her wisdom for its intensity, all said and done, rocked my world so competely, I was complelled to try it again. Instructions were placed there for them to learn to read and write, but with the spirit fully enabled, they didnt need it., My best friend, former chief opponent, when asked to be have anything in the universe, wanted to be me. Inspite of knowing better, it is what he asked for! MAI ereh os Tnaw EnooN LIVES lANONEeeFROM Zion

Answer 9

Well, For one thing that space station won`t stay up there if we don`t go up ever so often and boost it back up. We take turns with the Russians doing this. There is a lot of scientific work going on with our space program. It is vital to our existence.

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Answer 10

Yes to learn! But also, many advances have come from the space program in the past thirty years. Cordless power tools and tang to name a few!