I Dream of Jeanne

"Eric Chomko" wrote in message
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Paul F. Dietz ) wrote:
: Eric Chomko wrote:

: Well the definition of investment states that you must spend money in
: order to make money. I don't want the government investing per se. Do
you
: want the government to be capitalistic like a business?

: I want the government to not spend money on things that have
insufficient
: return of some kind. The manned space program has manifestly failed
: to have sufficient return.

As compared to?

How about the Aeronautics side of NASA? Lots of good research gets done on
that side of the house, but you don't see them building *the* next
generation aircraft. Instead, they do the research that makes the next
generation of aircraft possible.

How about unmanned space probes? At least they have been able to get out of
LEO a few times since the early 70's. The US manned space program has been
stuck in a rut since ASTP. For that matter, the Russian space program has
been stuck in a rut since about Salyut 6.

Jeff
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