quote:Okay, here is the thing, almost all of those technologies that I cited were developed from the space race. The problem with the race to the moon was that there was not an economic gain in just going to the moon. The gain is received in the technologies developed to make space travel easier. Now, I don't see a business using their money to go to the moon (assuming that they wouldn't see that the real benefit is received through the R&D to get there)
And those things would have still come about without the space program. The invention of the car, plane, using electricity, the telephone and thousands of other things managed to come about without any government "need" or costly program. Look at all the "inventions" that are coming onto the market all the time now.