为什么要花这么多钱去太空短文★★★★★
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Every time something goes up, somebody asks why we spend that money on space when people are sick and poor here.
每次有东西升上去，就有人问：地上还有人生病、还有人穷，我们为什么花这么多钱去太空。
It is a fair question, and the same argument could stop any expensive thing, so it has no clean answer.
这问题问得对，同一套话可以拦住任何贵的东西，所以它没有一个干净的答案。
Still, the money is not spent in space. It is spent here, on engineers and on the people who build the parts and test one of them for two years.
但有一点：那笔钱不是在太空花掉的。它是在这儿花掉的，花在工程师身上，花在做那些零件、一个件测两年的人身上。
Then there are the tools that fall out of the work: the small camera in your pocket, the water filter, the way a hospital looks for cancer.
再一样就是干活路上掉出来的那些工具：你口袋里那个小镜头、滤水的那层东西、医院查癌症的那个办法。
A person who means to reach the moon must solve a hundred problems that have nothing to do with it.
一个人真打算去月亮上，他就得先解决一百件跟月亮毫无关系的问题。
The last answer I cannot prove. People watch a launch, and their children grow up thinking that work is for them too.
最后一条我说服不了自己。有人看完一次发射，他的孩子长大时就觉得那种活儿也是给他准备的。
We have never run out of problems on the ground, and we still build things.
我们在地上从来没有把问题做完过，可我们还是在做东西。