True Maroon

Would have been a acomplishment spending the 2.1 billion on helping the poor,helping the older folks who can't work, helping folks that can't pay their medical bills,and funding jobs! Get back to me if going there helps any of those things then we have something to be proud of!

All this acomplished was putting a car sized 2.1billion robot on Mars....great!Does it plan to bring back anything to help out the groups above???

I'm all for what helps those groups out but would be a waste if that is the reason and find nothing and it cost 2 billion when it could have went to helping those groups out....I get what you're saying but the risk out weighs the reward when what's being risk is our dollors that I rather go to help the groups out above not some NASA folks.

I'd be willing to pay a little bit more taxes if I knew it was helping my fellow man that had it worse than I. I'm not much on politics but I know what I be willing to do would never happened atlest not for the cause that I would agree to.

You can thank NASA for all the technology you have right now. Every cell phone uses technology that NASA developed 30 years ago. Every time NASA has a breakthrough it causes a breakthrough in technology that we use. Do you know how many jobs are created by this? NASA has and always will be one of the best, if not the best, return on an investment made by the USA.

Sounds wonderful!All those breakthroughs and yet doesn't help any of what I listed...like I said to each his own!

You posted that using technology birthed by the space program. This technology has been the bedrock of our economy and others for about the last 25 years. That might have fed a few people.

R&D is a long term investment. You'll have to get over the society's show-me-now attitude to have a chance to see that.

It took decades for the aforementioned technology to make a real impact. I am glad nobody canceled NASA in the 60's. Thanks, JFK, who said "we do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard.

My prediction: the landing technology used will be used again to deliver large and sensitive support payloads to inaccessible areas. Like dropping a mobile hospital next to a Somalian village or something.

Did you read anything I posted? Most of what society thrives on today came from NASA technology decades earlier. To say this also feeds the poor is an understatement.