[m21sniper]

I find the claim that the military had a net benefit from NASA wrt advancing it's technology as utterly laughable.

That same money funneled to DARPA et al would've paid out far higher dividends IMO. Almost all the tech people are crediting to NASA is actually tech delevoped and perfected by the Military.

The space shuttle is probably the single most wasteful and innefficient program in the history of the US Gov't- if not mankind. A white elephant to dominate all others.