Comments on: Wait, NASA is going to the Moon in 2020? Yeah right.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:10:22 +0000

First off, I've always been a huge fan of space and rockets.
And, I think your comments are right on mark.

We went to the moon (which required lots of stuff to be developed) then we quit leaving a lot of loose ends, extra rockets, Skylab, etc. In hindsight, that seems silly.

The shuttle isn't reusable. A pool of 100 capsules that could be to some extend re-furbishable might have been something to look into. Or flyback boosters.

The commercial (semiconductors, medicine) interest in the space station seems to have come and gone compared to some statements made in the 1980s.

We don't use the ISS as a departure point for other missions.

There seems to be a lot of "Mars vs. Moon" chatter out there.

So, to summarize it: Where are the goals and when are we going? It isn't that we can't get there, if had a plan we could mass manufacture and get the costs down.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:10:22 +0000

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