With the woes that the space shuttle has had the last few years, I got to thinking about the space program.
The manned flights to the moon were truly the pinnacle of man's spirit of adventure.
We have benefitted from the technology in our everyday lives from transistor radios in the 60's to microwaves and computers today.
When the moon missions ended, we had the opportunity to continue onward to Mars, but the space shuttle took center stage at Nasa. For the last twenty plus years, the program has stagnated and failed to capture the imagination of the American people.
Was this a military application of space? What purpose has it really served?
With this having been said, should we:
Expand the space program's reach to explore deep space?
Just continue with the shuttle program, but run it better?
