Pretty much, yes.Originally Posted by Barbarossa
It's also a way for NASA to justify it's existence.
Poor NASA is caught between the proverbial "Moon and New York City"...severe budget cuts have hamstrung R&D,the two shuttle disasters and the resulting outcry over safety issues and general public apathy have all combined to force them into a defensive, quick-fix mentality.
The technology they will employ (even if boosted with steroids) will only scale up to a Mars project...Man won't go any further than Mars strapped on top of a roman candle.
Any pretense of extraSolar exploration will have to include technologies way different than those currently proposed.
I think it's clear we have the brains, just not the will, to make real progress in space.
After all, we went from barely functional military rockets to the Moon in under a decade. Since then....nada, really.
Maybe NASA could convince evangelical Christians that they could build a stairway to Heaven (the boys of SouthPark could...).
That would certainly provide a much needed influx of fervor and cash into a program in dire need of both.
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