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dolariSo, Bush is considering announcing a moon mission or two.....and retiring the shuttle fleet?
No.
USE THE SHUTTLE TO BUILD A SPACE STATION THAT MATTERS. LIKE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO.
From there, you can start work on using it as a way station on the way to the moon. which can then be used as a launching point for Mars.
LIKE NASA PLANNED IN THE EARLY 70s.
Before Nixon slashed the budget, and made a Shuttle that didn't do it's job until we decided to finally build ISS in th early 90s. If NASA had had it's way we'd have gone to Mars by now. Granted there was a war going on back then, but we never revisited space after the war was over!
Not like it really matters. It's just a happy happy joy joy statement he can say to get reelected and ignore once he's back in.
Sorry about the rant, but space exploration is something really close to my heart.
No.
USE THE SHUTTLE TO BUILD A SPACE STATION THAT MATTERS. LIKE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO DO.
From there, you can start work on using it as a way station on the way to the moon. which can then be used as a launching point for Mars.
LIKE NASA PLANNED IN THE EARLY 70s.
Before Nixon slashed the budget, and made a Shuttle that didn't do it's job until we decided to finally build ISS in th early 90s. If NASA had had it's way we'd have gone to Mars by now. Granted there was a war going on back then, but we never revisited space after the war was over!
Not like it really matters. It's just a happy happy joy joy statement he can say to get reelected and ignore once he's back in.
Sorry about the rant, but space exploration is something really close to my heart.
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Date: 2003-12-05 02:10 pm (UTC)In the 70s, NASA had an excellent plan for building a shuttle that could make a space station, that could then be used as a way station for more (second generation) shuttles to make more space stations and build moon bases. From there, the moon bases would have MORE shuttles, to launch to MARS. NASA actually had plans at one point to have all this done inside of 30 years (With 30 to 50 shuttle launches in a year during the peak time).
I would love to see the second generation of Shuttle get into production NOW, use the first generation to build the ISS into more of a waystation than an experiment platform, and then from there, work on a moonbase.
China will more'n'likely get a man on the moon soon, but in the capacity we did with the Apollo missions (land, look around, play golf, bring back rocks) before they'll make a moonbase. By the time they get to the point where they can make a moon base, we should be up and running to do one ourselves, AND have a way-station as well.
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