Should governments spend money on computer technology or more basic need2

Should governments spend money on computer technology or
more basic needs?
Nowadays, we are entering into a supplicated science era that
more and more funds are put into exploring the space. However,
some would argue that the government should render the main
funds to people`s basic needs. I think it depends on the economical
situation of the country. Governments of developing and
developed countries should in turn adopt different strategies for
investment according to their specific cases respectively.
First, a developing country will be best served if it spends money
mostly on meeting people`s basic needs, such as food, shelter etc.
For instance, China has more than over 3
billion people living under poverty, suffering poor health insurance
and is deprived of the right of education due to the lack of money. In
Africa, there are people die of various diseases like AIDs everyday,
and the government are compelled to invest their money in medicine
and correlated research. Only by ensuring people`s basic needs met,
the country would gain the overall national strength and develop
further.
On the other hand, developed country will be better off by investing
in exploring outpace. They have enough money and resources to do
it. Moreover, they are leaders of the world. The discovery of space
will only speed up their own growth, but also would be beneficial to
all human beings on the earth. Admittedly, there is poverty in every
country, but poverty is not the main problem for developed
countries.
To put all into a nutshell, whether the government should invest as
much as money on exploring out space is not a simple question.
Developed countries will accelerate their development on exploring
the space while the developing countries would be better off taking
care of the basic needs of its citizens.