Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows

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Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows
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Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows::Americans like NASA, but don't support their funding going towards moon missions, according to new polls.

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The technologies we invent along the way are worth the investment, in my opinion. Look at everything that came out of the original space race.

Nah. If we go back to the Moon, we are going to need more than "new technologies", but an actual purpose.

Right now, Helium-3, rare earth metals, and a slingshot to the rest of the solar system are good reasons to colonize the Moon if we can figure out how to do it cheaply.

like ICBMs and freeze dried ice cream sandwiches!