If you don't know who Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is, you need to know him . In this compilation video he lays out why NASA is important, why it inspires and how little it actually costs. I grew up(lol that's relative) dreaming of space travel and astronauts, I remember crying when the Challenger blew up, I remember talking about astronauts in school, and I remember designing moon bases. What happened to all that? Have we really allowed Sci-Fi movies/books/comics/mini-series to take over our yearnings for exploration? Let them satiate our need for discovery? Are we telling our kids that the next frontier is planetary travel? That they could actually be the ones to go to Mars? A like Dr Tyson points out, many may ask why is that important? How is it significant? What purpose does it serve? Well he lays out some great points, educational and otherwise. And frankly after seeing stuff like this, and this, and this, I worry about what our focus is on as a nation. I realize this is a 1st world problem, but in light of the "budget crisis" and our massive decline in educational standings around the world, it seems we ought to "reboot"