Saying that taxpayers have soured on space implies that they were once sweet on space. Polls going back to the early 1960s, however, have always given the same basic results – the public likes space in a general interest way but they don’t see it as a big priority for spending their tax dollars. It’s this mile wide – inch deep attitude of the public that has always bedeviled space advocates who try to push for more spending on NASA. Politicians just don’t see any votes being gained for supporting increased spending on space.
Until the public sees (1) the cost of space activities drop dramatically and (2) lots of people like themselves going to space and involved with space activities, this attitude isn’t going to change.
2012 Canadian documentary film directed by Simon Ennis, and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Ron Mann, Jonah Bekhor. The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival on September 8, 2012 and is headed for worldwide circulation through German Screen. The film draws from a cast of real people who each have a unique connection to the moon, to include an astronaut who once walked on the moon and a person who claims personal ownership of the moon.
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