Simply Amazing

[MileHighGrowler]

(07-25-2022, 11:53 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Today the moon landing is celebrated as one of the greatest achievements in the history of the United States.  However, a lot of people don't realize that at the time it happened there was a lot of protest and civil unrest over the amount of money being spent on a moon landing.  A lot of citizens felt it was a waste of resources when there were poverty issues in our country.

(07-27-2022, 02:33 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: There have been some pretty significant inventions/advancements that have come from the hands of NASA. Water filters, freeze drying, LED, smoke detectors, solar cells, long distance telecom... 

NASA is as much a research organization as they are an exploratory one. 

These^. The moon landing on its own was largely a political move, but the significant advances in technology as a result of that project are staggering. So is the amount of money that's been returned back into the economy as a result of those advances. There is more at play than grownups playing with rockets and looking through telescopes.