Getting calls at work on my cell phone from my 5yr old son telling me the latest on Spirit last week was worth a big chunk of all the taxes I've paid in the six years I've worked in the US. What an amazing period of history to be born in.... Cheers David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@trilobyte.net> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 10:14 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: NASA's purpose?
Chris Clark wrote:
...In other words, what do you (we?) expect to "get" out of our collective spending on NASA's
activities?
How's about the laying of the foundation of future (and to some extent, current) private investment in space?
IMHO we all owe NASA and the world's other space agencies a big thank you for getting us into space. But while government will always have a place "up there" it's private enterprise that will really push things up there in the future.
Patrick
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