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Renew our space mission amarcnn | July 14, 2011 at 8:00 am | Tags: CNN's Fareed Zakaria | Categories: Space | URL: http://wp.me/p1bJgh-28g

Editor's Note: The following is an edited excerpt from a transcript of Fareed Zakaria answering viewer questions online. 

We need to re-think the purpose of space missions.

For years the U.S. shuttle program has basically sent people up into the inner atmosphere, spun them around for a while, and then brought them back. We've been doing this now for 15 or 20 years. It's not entirely clear what the point is. We're not learning much more and it's incredibly expensive at $1.5 billion per shuttle flight.

What we need to say to ourselves is: "The purpose of the space program is to learn more about the universe and to learn more about space and that is going to be the goal, not necessarily to have manned flight, not to necessarily to say we touched down on Mars."

The goal has to be to figure out what is going on in the universe: Is there life out there?  What can we learn about different galaxies? Read more of this post

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