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"Yesterday NASA confirmed the loss of the $165 million Mars Polar Lander. NASA's next expenditure will be a mission to find and photograph the lost craft. NASA has existed for over 30 years and has continually pumped taxpayer's hard-earned money into projects that have rendered mixed results at best and abject failure at worst. Why should the government be in the space business at all? Why not leave space exploration to the private sector? If society has a need, it will be addressed by investors and consumers in the marketplace. Silicon Valley is proof positive of that."