Space Race
By 2024 there are humans on mars and a colony on the moon in the world of Parable of the Sower. In our world NASA plans to land people on the moon in 2024 for the first time in 50 years, but that date is likely to slip I find it interesting that in a world where the government has completely failed to maintain a livable society, they still have a space program years ahead of ours. Parable of the Sower makes the space program out to be a complete waste of resources, but I think that this is a short sighted view. The space program is primarily a jobs program and secondarily a scientific pursuit. If they are sending people to Mars, there must be tens of thousands of jobs on Earth to support it, jobs that are badly needed. Abolishing the space program is therefore short sighted as it will just weaken the economy.