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And you have to consider the real possibility
that it will *not* involve NASA directly.

Dave

yeah i think were about to watch nasa as a agency die, perhaps
deservedly so


On the contrary, the huge cost of manned space flight has starved
NASA from accomplishing more worthy and beneficial goals.
Spending the next 20 years returning to the Moon would destroy
NASA from the sheer expense and lack of tangible benefits
to society. It's lousy goals, like The Vision, which turns the public
away and harms NASA.

Times like right now are a golden opportunity to create an entirely
new and far more popular goal. My personal pet for the new
direction is Space Solar Power. Something that has world wide
and lasting potential benefits, which every person should easily
comprehend and appreciate. From ending wars over oil, to solving
American's greatest single weakness, to climate change. And on
and on. The Moon can't come close to competing.

Energy connects to everything and everyone.