good: Roving Curiosity: Why NASA’s Jaw Dropping Mars Mission Is Worth Every Penny This argument occurs, year after year, at dinner parties and in Congress alike. Every time, someone asks the question: why are we paying for NASA? Written by Wylie Overstreet Passage to remember: NASA’s sole purpose is this: to search for truth. “To reveal the unknown for the benefit of all humanity”—that’s its motto and that’s what Brandon was trying to articulate. When we push back the frontier of space, that is when we are at our best. The old among us find renewed hope, the young, new aspirations. It inspires us in a way no other science does. Infectious disease research simply does not make jaws drop. NASA germinates new generations of scientists and innovators, individuals who can solve our terrestrial problems. It galvanizes the world, as Sagan noted, “to address problems in other fields that also have never been solved. It gives currency to critical thinking, the sort so urgently needed if we’re going to solve hitherto intractable social issues.” If we can do this, we ask, what else are we capable of?
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Roving Curiosity: Why NASA’s Jaw Dropping Mars Mission Is Worth Every Penny

This argument occurs, year after year, at dinner parties and in Congress alike. Every time, someone asks the question: why are we paying for NASA?

Written by Wylie Overstreet

Passage to remember:

NASA’s sole purpose is this: to search for truth. “To reveal the unknown for the benefit of all humanity”—that’s its motto and that’s what Brandon was trying to articulate. When we push back the frontier of space, that is when we are at our best. The old among us find renewed hope, the young, new aspirations. It inspires us in a way no other science does. Infectious disease research simply does not make jaws drop. NASA germinates new generations of scientists and innovators, individuals who can solve our terrestrial problems. It galvanizes the world, as Sagan noted, “to address problems in other fields that also have never been solved. It gives currency to critical thinking, the sort so urgently needed if we’re going to solve hitherto intractable social issues.” If we can do this, we ask, what else are we capable of?

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