http://slate.msn.com/id/2078104/ Was the Space Shuttle useful? Columbia’s main contribution to human knowledge: “By the end of this year, we will know more than we ever did before about how to collect, catalog, and analyze the debris of a space-flight disaster.”
Some human space flight advocacy: (1) “What can a man do on Mars that a robot cannot?” / “PLANT A FUCKING FLAG ON THE PLANET.”; (2) John F. Kennedy, 1962: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”
(But I think putting humans into space is too expensive. Can’t we wait 50 years for cheaper and better technology?) 04:56
