ABSTRACT
Freud was immersed in a lifelong conceptual struggle with what emerged from his clinical findings. Empirical work—gathering the relevant evidences—and conceptual work go hand in hand, this being valid for each and every observational discipline. Science is much easier when it is more formalized because formalization transforms irreducible conceptual difficulties in transitory technical difficulties that can be overcome by means of dedicated apprenticeship. In that sense the strength and the weakness of the so-called exact sciences lies in that they let avoid thinking continually and they develop through mechanization. Every NASA expedition provides huge amounts of data for scientific scrutiny, empirical and conceptual, of course. In any case the practical aspects of getting into outer space provoke conceptual treatment of what is going on and defy established concepts about cosmological matters with collateral gains for all sciences.
