Sir, - Has the world gone mad? A spacecraft costing £148 million has just been sent millions of miles through space and is now sitting on a lump of rock called Eros. What possible benefit will mankind derive from this endeavour? Not a lot, I would imagine.
It is an appalling waste of money when you consider that there are so many millions of people in this world who are dying from the effects of poverty. - Yours, etc.,
John O'Shea, GOAL, PO Box 19, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.