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Are you intentional refusing to understand me ? I've already acknowledged the benefits of zero gravity experiments. One doesn't need to go any further than we already are to do that. The technologies that you speak of were needed on Earth BEFORE we went to space. Could science only address those needs in the context of space travel ?
No not at all, I thought I was addressing your questions as you presented them. However , the technologies that I speak of were not even thought of until the space program , so to say they were needed on Earth is stretching it at best. To answer your last question, it depends, as some of the technologies developed for space flight , the concept that there actually was a need for them , did not come about until after they were developed. I see nothing wrong with anything that dwells into research that benefits everyone, and NASA has a long history of doing just that. So to limit their research abilities , limits development of technolgies and discoveries that benefit us all. To simply say that Science here on Earth or in Low Earth Orbit can accomplish what can be accomplished by not going back to the moon or Mars is rather short sighted and history does not support that arguement. Besides, as I mentioned above even low earth orbit will be out of reach for the United States soon, unless this project is fully funded.