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  1. Re:Show me the money... by shawnce · · Score: 1 · on NASA Urged to Reconsider Shuttle Mission to HST

    On the side note, the whole Mars thing seems bunk, when was the last time anybody even heard any other information about it? Maybe there'll be some more talk about Mars (talk is cheap) until November elections.

    Why not read the report that was recently released (the report was the first step in the planning/feasibility validation of the directed goal)...

    moon to mars

  2. Privatization, Here We Come by schnarff · · Score: 1 · on SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully

    Now let's hope that SpaceShip One and others competing for the X-Prize can get actively involved in iplementing the Moon-To-Mars Commission's recommendations, which call for a great deal of privatization and commercialization of space, particularly near Earth.

  3. Goals by FTL · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip
    Most people seem to agree that going to the Moon is a silly thing to do if your goal is to get to Mars. But I don't think that's the goal here. I think the goal is to go to the Moon. The word "Mars" doesn't even appear in the executive order. Bush just added the "and at some point on to Mars" to the end of his speech to keep the Mars camp happy.

    Frankly I don't care where we go, Moon, Mars or asteroids. Let's just get off this rock.

  4. just one small point by kippy · · Score: 4, Insightful · on A Way to Save Hubble?

    Rather than hope that some small or large corporation agrees that a profit can be made off of Hubble research, the government should take a stand and finance basic science for its own sake, instead of ruminating about a massive aerospace industry welfare program under the cover of an exciting bunch of missions to the Moon and Mars.

    Aerospace welfare is keeping the shuttle and space station fantasy of space exploration alive. NASA employed a small army just to keep the shuttles in working order and ISS is just too pathetic to contemplate. Manned missions to planetary bodies is the correct direction for space exploration. That's where the science can be done. All the astronomy that Hubble did could be dwarfed by a lunar telescope array.

    NASA is finaly breaking out of 30 years of aerospace welfare. The new space push is finaly something done right. Let's just hope they stick to it and do it correctly.