Why does the U.S. waste money on NASA?

Question

Seriously wot will we ever do in space? We should be using that money for something else other than exploring Mars or the moon for life. I mean satelites are an ok idea but wasting like $40 billion just to explore Mars ?
The U.S. should be using the money for curing diseases or atleast exploring the Earth. We haven't finished exploring Earth and we're already exploring space!?

Thanks for answering my question if you do :)

Answer 1

Where else can you spend trillions of dollars ever year where you don't need anything to show for it? Like the US population really cares that there is yet another solar system 5 bazillion miles and it impact earth in the year 3099. We better go to defcon 7 and prepare!

NOTE: Yes, I said bazillion - NASA makes stuff up – so can I).

Maybe get someone in office with their head screwed on straight. Let's worry about the issues today (starvation, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, disease, energy problem, etc.) before we sink money into something that has yet to actually help up. I benefit from 7 clowns floating around space how???

Answer 2

If you want it narrowed down to how exactly it can benefit you, how about your i-Pod? Miniaturization for space flight. How about medical items such as artificial limbs? Robotics for NASA missions. How about the Internet you are looking at to ask this question? Data compression algorithms for transmitting information across vast distance in space.

There are a ton of benefits from NASA that most people don't even begin to understand. Check out NASA's Spinoff Technology page (see link in sources)

As for exploring Earth before space, 20 of NASA's current 71 missions are looking at Earth.

Answer 3

Both NASA and the military are ways of pushing technology. There are lots of things that you use in everyday life that without space or military research they may not have been invented. The ability to go somewhere in space is great but it is also a way to improve the quality of life on Earth

Answer 4

It's all part of human inquisitive nature. Without it, we would live the way a monkey does today.

And no its not something that's selective. Either human wants to explore the entire world or not at all. That's how we're wired to be.

Furthermore, there are 2 ways science knowledge progress, one is through experiment, the other is observation. NASA does the later one.

Answer 5

with out NASA and its predecessor, you won't be dropping it sluggish on the laptop. computers might basically with the aid of used in an air conditioned development committed to the laptop. with out NASA, you won't be using in air conditioned convenience from Hamberg to Newark. with out NASA you won't be watching satellite tv for pc television. with out NASA you won't have that stunning little android telephone. There hundreds of things that we use on a daily basis that have been developed to reinforce the area software.

Answer 6

Perhaps you should think of something else, like, why do we spend so much money helping other countries, instead of helping our own. At least the money spent on NASA is for the US. We spend a lot of money aiding other countries, help with poverty, rebuilding, wars...etc. We have poverty here, things to rebuild here....Space is the least of our countries worries.

Answer 7

there are many benefits from space exploration...try reading a few internet articles about them

Answer 8

I thoroughly agree with you. Maybe it's just something to brag about. We have starving people, homelessness, rampant crime (just being incarcerated doesn't cut it-we need reforms), people who can't afford healthcare, diseases that need further investigating, etc. But, WTF? Our government doesn't care about those trivialities. Go figure.