DAVIES: In the book, you quote a Nobel laureate in physics who says the International Space Station is an orbital turkey. This person says no important science has come of it, almost no science at all, and further says that - this person would say that the whole manned space flight program, which is enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value. What do you think of that point of view?
TYSON: ...You are naive to think that the entire existence of the space program was to advance the cause of scientists.
...We went into space driven by geopolitical forces. ...every astronaut but one that we had ever launched into space...
was an active or former member of the military.
...He is right. Not much science has come out of this.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Examines The 'Unspoken Alliance' Between Science And War
DAVIES: In the book, you quote a Nobel laureate in physics who says the International Space Station is an orbital turkey. This person says no important science has come of it, almost no science at all, and further says that - this person would say that the whole manned space flight program, which is enormously expensive, has produced nothing of scientific value. What do you think of that point of view?
TYSON: ...You are naive to think that the entire existence of the space program was to advance the cause of scientists. ...We went into space driven by geopolitical forces. ...every astronaut but one that we had ever launched into space... was an active or former member of the military. ...He is right. Not much science has come out of this.
Not about science. Space is about politics.