I think a lot of the "real science" that goes on, that is, the science which we can see impact our lives here on earth is all the residual development that goes on... creating ways to make things happen in a zero-grav environment, creating systems that work in the isolation of space, materials that survive breaking out of the atmosphere and back into it. Space flight is about so much more than just space and the moon. It gives us a new way to approach problems and find solutions to issues we didn't even realize we had here on earth.
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