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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so depressing.  Americans really have lost any sense of exploration and curiosity.

OP, do you like using your cell phone?  Do you like knowing when a hurricane is going to hit? Do you like mamograms? How about camera phones? GPS? Tang?

Thank the space program.

Landing on the moon gave us a target through which all sorts or rocket science and space operations developed.[/quote]

Which of those technologies could have been developed without landing on the moon? (Hint: All of them)

Why do you think there's only one way to show curiosity?

And to the loon who is comparing the space program with European exploration: You look back at that and think "Wow, really worked out great for most of the planet!"?[/quote]

None, because you wouldn’t have gotten any public support or funding if we had just tried to launch some weather satellites or develop launch vehicles capable of  reaching geosynchronous orbit absent a lofty goal.
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It's cute that you think weather satellites were a thing. The first satellites were used for communication and spying on foreign countries. The science missions were secondary.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Radiation_and_Background[/quote]

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