A lot of people curse astronomy and space sciences because of the huge budgets dedicated to the researches of these fields by developed countries.
Outrageously, those individuals have a common thought that astronomy studies are useless, unbeneficial and it would be better to direct such funds to poor communities or such.
In fact, the applications of space sciences and astronomy are extremely wide. They range from the missed calls you send to your friends, to medical fields, to fuel and thousands of other applications.
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