The Washington Post, June 24th, 1991
I fail to understand how venturing into space is our destiny {"A Base on the Moon, op-ed, June 14}, while solving earthly problems is not. Charles Krauthammer attempts to discredit objections to the space station by convincing us that "adventure" and "capturing the imagination" are worth tens of billions of dollars. He says the argument that the space station is stealing from pressing social needs is an old refrain and that pressing social issues will always be with us. That may be true. However, have so many problems ever been with us in such magnitude? When have we ever had a $200 billion de...
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