Inevitably when our space program makes a few advances and the politicians decide to blow anti-matter plasma up our neutronic hyper-warp exhaust shafts, there comes the question "Why?"
Why spend all this money when there is so much left to take care of back home? That's what the critics ask, as if the space program is some kind of wasteful luxury devoted to appeasing our sense of wonder and providing us with "neat" images of the great beyond.
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