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The ISS and NASA are now paying the price for successive administrations who were wishy-washy about the space program in general. Unmanned exploration is delivering great dividends, but shortsightedness has kept our manned program from moving forward.
In retrospect, the money spent on ISS might have been better targeted at more specific goals, but a permanent manned presence in space is, in itself, nothing to be sneezed at. It is sort of hard for us to know how what we learn now might be applied in the future. Failure to think of the future is one of the greatest shortcomings of Mankind, IMHO.
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"To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog
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