Was This Photo Worth The Cost?

With all of the problems we face on the earth should we spend multiple billions of dollars on our lusts? Think of all of the good things we might have accomplished with the money that was wasted on this dead end trip to the moon. A whole community could have been built, with schools and housing.

“Much of the related flurry of reporting noted the stark differences between reality—people have not been back to the lunar surface since the December 1972 visit—and Clarke’s idea. Articles also asked whether the nation is sufficiently committed to devoting the $200 billion or so to returning to the moon 10 years from now and perhaps, after that, spending even more money to send humans to Mars.”