text: space travel? i would like to get your personal opinions on how you think that space travel is important enough to spend billions of dollars on when we have so much hunger and human issues in our world.  i personally feel that this money should be put towards educating our children and housing the poor. the earth is a closed system.  all socail and politica syatems are based on various ways to distribute the limited resources the earth has.   if we expand into outer space, we will have unlimited resources and maybe people will value other people more then material things.   just a thought