SpaceX makes history, launches NASA astronauts into space from US soil for the first time since 2011-
[foxnews.com]
People ask why me it is important to send a few men into space.
I ask why was it important to send Columbus and a hundred-odd sailors to find a new way to China?
It changed the world. Not immediately. The precolumbian world was fixated on a trickle of luxury goods from the Indies and Orient. The postcolumbian world found new resources, new sources of wealth, and room to grow.
Columbus and his three rickety ships transformed the world. The new space race may do so as well.