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Astronaut Jim Lovell Agrees, Space Should Be Our Destination

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, USA on March 28, 2010

Cleaning out tabs that have been open for weeks. As any faithful reader may have guessed, we have a damn lot of them. The best way to remember them properly is to post them. For example, at least some of the old school astronauts are as disappointed as we were regarding the delays in returning to the moon.

Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell, the heroic commander of Apollo 13.
“Personally I think it will have catastrophic consequences in our ability to explore space and the spin-offs we get from space technology,” he said.
“They haven’t thought through the consequences.”

If you need examples of how space exploration has benefited us here on Earth, have a look at NASA’s annual publication Spinoff.

Available as a PDF or searchable database.

(via bbc)

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