While the money could certainly do more good elsewhere, this also doesn't seem to be harming anyone. Critical support from me. Like when the US got really into the space race, I can for sure think of better things to spend that money on, but if it is going to be spent putting an American flag somewhere I will just take the win when it turns out that somewhere is the moon.
Sure, but landing on the moon requires more than rocketry. The US did actually devote reources to space technology with no military applications, and that's... fine. Didn't really help anyone, but also no one is dead from it.
While the money could certainly do more good elsewhere, this also doesn't seem to be harming anyone. Critical support from me. Like when the US got really into the space race, I can for sure think of better things to spend that money on, but if it is going to be spent putting an American flag somewhere I will just take the win when it turns out that somewhere is the moon.
rockets are the same technology as missiles the space race was a show of nuclear force
Sure, but landing on the moon requires more than rocketry. The US did actually devote reources to space technology with no military applications, and that's... fine. Didn't really help anyone, but also no one is dead from it.
Well, except the 14 members of the Challenger and Colombia crews
Fine, but when the US spends this amount of money on anything I have learned to expect a lot more bodies.
Whoops
Lots of those going around NASA at the time
It's harming and/or is premised on harming: