do you think space travel like nasa is a waste of money?

i like to know from everyone

yes.

and why do I say this? because Money is not the driving force to learn and should never be.
NASA doesn't know everything and what they learn hardly benefits any of us. Closed doors to the public.
Hubble has done well for the human race...nice pics.

also, the tech behind the space shuttle is garbage. It can't go anywhere out in the cosmos...too primitive.
Satellites have helped us for communications but also have helped us turn this world into a prison planet....where everyone is being watched.

no thats like saying History is useless. Besides, some of us prefer to know what the hell is around us and know our origins. If space exploration was a waste of money you would have no TV, no GPS, no technology, no protection from possible asteroid encounters, and on and on and on. Humanity would be completely ignorant.

Space travel is a small part of what NASA does. There is also satellites, telescopes, observatories, instrumentation, engineering, basic research, education, etc. And I'm always curious to find out what people think is happening to that money. It's not like they are throwing it into the Sun. It's being spent right here in our economy.

I actually think it is very bad to ask public opinion about those sorts of things. Science is measured about what is learned, not in success of a mission. The general public actually rarely learns about any of the breakthroughs that NASA has made in recent time. So its not like they have any reason to think its a good thing.

Secondly, as we can see by the Bio-sphere 2 incident, the media can turn what is actually a successful learning process, into "total failure" and a "colossal waste of money". The Bio-sphere 2 was supposed to be an enclosed environment meant to allow people to survive for a year, except several problems lead to them releasing oxygen into the Bio-sphere. While they were unsuccessful in maintaining the bio-sphere, we learned of 3 things that lead to those problems (the two that I remember was too much bacteria in the soil, and C02being released by the concrete).

What people don't understand is these things can't be perfect the first time around. No one can think of all the problems the first time through.

I personally believe that space exploration is important. We only have limited resources here on Earth, if we can not obtain other resources, our population will end up killing itself.

hell no.. going on the above answer,
its not failure if you learn something

Do you imagine that NASA loads there spacecraft with dollar bills and strews them amongst the stars? It should always be borne in mind that every cent NASA spends is spent right here on Earth, providing tens of thousands of jobs for people, who then spend their earnings in other sectors of our economy. If every single launch by NASA was a failure, the money would still have been well spent. All of the scientific knowledge gained is merely a bonus.

off course i mean whats the point of sending stupid probes AGAIN.... seriously there is no point we should just work on our economy instead (unless theyre trying to find oil in mars lol)

No Way.NASA is doing a great job in the advancement of space maping and space travel.We will need this kind of information in the future when we enter a new form of space travel.
There will come a time when there wont be enough space on this planet for the population to sustain a normal life so we must look for an alternative planet to live on.It's mans future to populate the universe.Could you imagine living on Earth in a couple of hundred years when we have our own flying saucers instead of cars and we go on weekend trips around the solar system.How much fun would that be.
Now,to answer your question.All this would not be possible without that input of NASA.So no, it's not a waste of money at all.It's like a superanuation for mankind.Well that's how I see it anyway.

Your question is the same with :
"Do you think that the voyage of Colombus to the west in 1492 was a waste of money?
or the voyage of Magellan or Vasco de Gama?"
I think the answer is more than obvious!!!