Don't mean to step on anybodies toes, but I'd have to argue that money spent on the space program is some of the best money ever spent.Our present world would be a very very diferent place if the money spent in the past had not been spent.Reserch and money put into space programs has not always accomplished the goal that was being attempted at a particular time but has never failed to spawn scores of innovations and inventions that we consider vital today.It could easily be argued that there is no way that our Country could not be on the top of the heap without hi-tech. innovations that have their roots in the space program.Both the battlefield and modern medical care would be very diferent had there never been a space program.Our dailey lives are also very diferent than they would have been without a space program.Literally hundreds of thousands of American lives have been saved because of money spent on the space program in the past and all of our lives have been made better.Sounds like worthwhile spending to me.