Is space research spending worth it?

# Investing more in high end satellites will help us monitor Earth's atmosphere, oceans and ice caps.

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# The experts suggest that rather than preparing for some distant future when human beings might have to flee our planet, we might be better off trying to maintain the one we have.

# The U.S. has announced it will pull out of the ISS program by the end of 2015 as a completed project won't be fit enough for long-term use as a research platform along with a growing number of critics (including the National Research Council) characterize the ISS's worth as scientifically dubious.