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Originally Posted by martyh
gotta ask the obvious question ....WHY?
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Why not? The last space race cost a lot of money, but was responsible for massive technical advances in all areas of life. Right from sunglasses (polarised lenses), through cooking (Teflon) to computing (massive advances in computing power and even the Relational Database was invented to help NASA keep track of parts).
There were also (I believe) advance in communications as well as a lot of others.
So, we profited even if the conspiracy theories about no one actually going to the moan (and I still believe they did) are correct.