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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SmartAZ" data-source="post: 2648221" data-attributes="member: 877706">Your focus is off. The benefits of space travel are not yet fully known. But we fully enjoy the benefits we have already realized by trying to develop space travel. The space pen seems like a trivial example, but a lot of people have made a living for fifty years selling space pens. No space program = no space pen. Maybe you should ask the Fisher Space Pen Company about benefits. They are here: http://www.spacepen.com/Here is a long article with more links: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/space-exploration-benefits.htmlEdited to add: If you don't understand the importance of creating thousands of jobs over a period of fifty or more years, then what in the world do you think is a "benefit"? I repeat my suggestion: ask the people at the pen company what they think about the question.</blockquote>