Think... if the space race ends, which it has been in danger of doing, NASA's funding dries up. Science's history, acceptance, and success has ways been subject to those in power and funding, and it's usefulness to those in power, or to those funding the experiments. Just as governments appoint ministers who serve their purpose, and shape the education systems to serve their purpose, which in turn produce the scientists to serve their purpose, they thus exert control over the supposedly 'unbiased' scientific process. Scientists have to pass government approved exams and get payed too.
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