I am puzzled by NASA's open funding proposal. In short it says, please ask this president to not cut our funding. This is all great and the space program definitely is an important pursuit for humanity.
That said, the proposal doesn't really answer the question - should I support it? The arguments in favor:
"It is critical to our country's success to remain the leader in human spaceflight"; "No other nation has ever placed a person on the moon." are kind of one-sided and don't give ground for any understanding of the decision.
Are we weighing one man on the moon (40 years ago) v.s. universal healthcare for 300 million people? Does leadership in the space exploration means there we need no peers?Is it worth an eventual garage-sale of the whole country (through excessive debt)?
I'm still puzzled.
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