Why Does NASA continue to exist?

Google Sponsors Lunar X PRIZE To Create A Space Race For A New Generation


"The Google Lunar X PRIZE will challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. The X PRIZE Foundation, best known for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private suborbital spaceflight, is an educational nonprofit prize organization whose goal is to bring about radical breakthroughs to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today."



....and NASA continues to spend billions doing the same mission over and over again in the "international" space station. In fact, providing jobs for an army of bureaucrats is their main mission. They get paid the same whether they launch 50 rockets in a year or just 2. It's taken a few decades, but companies and private foundations are beginning to make satellite launches and space travel more affordable for the average man and woman. The exploration of space is awesome and exciting to a large majority of people. These are the people that should be funding it since they will make the best use of their own money. They'll actually get a chance to ride to earth orbit in their lifetime with new commercial space ventures such as Virgin Galactic instead of just watching some videos on television.



The bottom line is the development of space technology is far too important to be left to any government.