This is in response to a Sun Journal article published March 15, “Astronauts repair problems with robot.”

Why should this nation spend more than $200 million on a robot to observe space when there are people out there who cannot afford to pay for weekly groceries or prescribed medicines?

Imagine a world where everyone could afford these things we sometimes take for granted. Shouldn’t we see to it that all the people in our world are taken care of before we go exploring others?

How many people could be taken care of with $200 million?

In my opinion, we should put them first and save the study of space for later.

Not only for health care reasons should we set aside these experiments, but how do we know we’re not damaging things in the universe with these robots? How do we know we’re receiving accurate images? The information we receive from it could be interpreted incorrectly and frighten us.

Our universe is very interesting to me, so I understand why so many people would encourage this robot, Dexter, and many others to fly into space. However, there comes a point when we can put our curiosity on hold.

That point is now.

Lauren Cronin