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I am tired of hearing everybody complain about spending billions of dollars to send people back to the moon and to Mars. Space travel not only feeds our human need of exploration but provides valuable breakthroughs and inventions that change our everyday life. Ever use Velcro on a shoe or Teflon on a pan? They are both on Earth because of space. There are numerous breakthroughs in ceramics, medical science and genetics that are all because of the space program.