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Why do we send shuttles into space?

Isn't it a vast of waste of dwindling resources now that we owe everybody starting with Japan and we are 8 trillion dollars in debt? So why are we spying on planets and taking "useful" pictures" for planets we can never land on? ? Everybody knows Saturn (and God I'd be afraid to go through the particle charged rings) has a storm 24-7 and Mercury is too close to the sun. It would burn the thing up. Pluto is at the dead end and all would likely freeze. Maybe we should send harmless monkeys up there or use our money wisely and take effective stewardship of the Nation's resources and quit competing with who can get there first. Reality stories did not start with Survivor.

Public Comments

1. there are soo many reasons to send shuttles into space it's insane. firstly, there are always the academic reasons, of which i am a firm supporter. it would just be amazing to know and understand what is out there, but for some reason i don't think ur going to buy that.... so if u don't believe we should go for academic purposes, i'll tell u why to refute your argument directly. u say that we don't have enough resources, which i totally agree with because the powers-that-be don't use them wisely and waste them, but there may be a great many resources in space that we can use. not that i would condone using it since we need to stop using unrenewable resources, but what if one of the planets is oil rich? what is it contains natural gas and coal? we could use that here, even if it wouldn't be the smart thing to do. also, if we could find some way to do so more effectively, and they're working on it now, we can collect the power of the sun, for it gives off so much energy it's unbelievable, and beam it back down to earth for human use. and what if, with the idiots that run the world right now, we end up in a nuclear war and destroy the planet more so than it is now? we won't be able to stay here forever the way we're going as it is, so we need to be able to go somewhere else. i see it being completely plausible that we have to have a mass migration off of earth because of what bad condition it's in, maybe not in our lifetimes, but someday. so if that's not enough reason, i don't know what will be.
2. 1) We may eventually have to start colonizing space for the room. Why wait to make the mistakes? 2) We learn valuable things about fundamental science and our solar system. Granted, that doesn't always require humans, but they do some experiments up there as well as manage the shuttle.
3. Personally, I think this is a more philosophical question than anything, but I say it's just human nature to want to know everything, conquer everything and all that lovely shiz. It's just curiosity... Also guys have this whole testostrone thing going on... Which leads to the whole "I must know/conquer/kill/own/mate with everything."
4. Look at ME am up here!
5. We ( NASA ) send shuttles into space to explore and to learn to some day be able to leave this planet and colonize other places in our solar system. On the other hand, if you send a shuttle into the ocean and not space, it would sink like the Titanic, Blub Blub Blub.
6. NASA's entire budget is only 2 Billion--tiny compared to the 8 Trillion dollar national debt. The benefits have been huge--check out the attached links of search for "benefits of space program".