Ground Control: An Argument for the End of Human Space Exploration - Hardcoverby Savannah Mandel (Author) In the 1960s and '70s, America spent $24 billion (around $150 billion in today's dollars) to land humans on the moon and "win" the space race. And while humans took their first steps on an extraterrestrial landscape, protesters at Cape Canaveral asked: Why waste money on space when there are so many issues here on Earth? More than 50 years later, an oligopoly of commercial space companies SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin