dasun wrote:
Well yes I am excited! After 3 decades of inaction and NASA busy work
it finally gets the show on the road - providing the politicians do not
get stuck into it.

Given financial & political realities this is the best we could have
hoped for. See it for what it is - a starting point that gives an
industrial and experience base for grander journeys in the future. As
someone who just remembers Armstrong taking his first step I would love
to have seen a more definitive Mars direction but I am just glad that a
window beyond LEO has finally opened let us hope the politicians do not
close it.

AS for the stick and using shuttle hardware, well why not? At least it
is a known and I have little faith in brand new systems and even
smaller faith in the nascent commercial space industry being able to
deliver on their promises.

Hey I am excited that there is *a* plan for going back to the Moon...
and we've just heard it from the horse's mouth!!!

That there is still a *will* and some thoughts around the *means* for
humans going back to the Moon within my lifetime is, in itself, the
most marvellous and most satifying thing I've heard in the past few
years...


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