@ISIDEWITHQuestionsscience9yrs ago

政府应该资助太空旅行吗？

In 2022 Congress’ increased NASA’s annual budget by 3% to about $24 billion, short of the 7% increase the Biden administration sought. The budget includes $1.5 billion in funds for the moon-lander program which would, for the first time in decades, take astronauts back to the lunar surface.

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Response rates from 25.1k Congressional District 4 voters.

64%
是的
36%
不
61%
是的
21%
不
3%
是的，并大幅增加美国航空航天局目前的预算
7%
不，直到我们大幅减少我们的联邦赤字才可以
4%
不应该，政府应将人类太空旅行留给私营公司
3%
不，我们应该关注于拯救地球而不是离开。
1%
不应该，NASA 的预算只应该用于军事任务
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不，政府不应该为任何太空探索任务提供资金

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 @8RB8LR2from Guam  answered…4yrs4Y

No, the government should leave space travelling to private sectors, but significantly increase the funding to NASA.

 @96V7JJD from Washington  answered…2yrs2Y

More resources should not be spent on exploring space until the problems of world trade, environmental pollution, workers' rights, etc. are solved

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2mos2MO

NASA’s $100 Billion Moon Mission Is Going Nowhere

There are government boondoggles, and then there’s NASA’s Artemis program.More than a half century after Neil Armstrong’s giant leap for mankind, Artemis was intended to land astronauts back on the moon. It has so far spent nearly $100 billion without anyone getting off the ground, yet its complexity and outrageous waste are still spiraling upward. The next US president should rethink the program in its entirety.As someone who greatly respects science and strongly supports space exploration, the more I have learned about Artemis, the more it has become apparent that it is a colossal waste of taxpayer money.The problems start with the mission, which is more political than scientific. There is little humans can do on the moon that robots cannot. Technology has come a long way since 1969, to put it mildly. We do not need another person on the moon to collect rocks or take scientific measurements. And the costs of putting people on the moon — and of planning for their potential rescue, should complications arise — are truly astronomical.To understand the level of wasteful spending, forget the $1 billion in spacesuits that have yet to be delivered. That’s pocket change compared to the rocket, called the Space Launch System. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s inspector general estimates the program has so far burned through $23.8 billion. Each launch will likely cost at least $4 billion, quadruple initial estimates. This exceeds private-sector costs many times over, yet it can launch only about once every two years and — unlike SpaceX’s rockets — can’t be reused.Even if the Space Launch System is completed, there’s a hitch: It isn’t even powerful enough to actually get anyone to the moon, at least not in its current configuration. It will instead deposit its capsule, called Orion, into what’s called near-rectilinear halo orbit. Here, the capsule — which, despite $20 billion being poured into it, currently has a faulty heat shield — must rendezvous with a landing spacecraft, which will then take the astronauts to the lunar surface. And getting the landing spacecraft into orbit, before it can be propelled toward the moon to meet Orion, is itself a complex process.