[xoxoxoBruce]

I agree, in that I don't see the purpose of sending people to the moon or mars. But saying that the space program produces nothing is a little much. Tremendous strides in science and medicine have come from the space program. Of course they might have been developed at lower cost than with NASA's shotgun method of research.
After we spend billions of taxpayer dollars on the super collider, is the resultant technology the property of the Government? I'd assume it would be passed on to "private industry" like in the past. Then of course "private industry" would pass it along to their "global partners" just like Boeing did to China with our space technology. Now China has put a man in space, thanks to the Soviets and the US taxpayer.