"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Ares-1, Ares-V, Constellation - all dead:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...,1252176.story
Possibly a heavy lift booster at some future point.
But ISS will be manned till 2020 instead of 2015.

OK, does everyone here now understand why trying
to repeat history is such a glaring mistake?

Because as time goes by, the 'landscape' changes.
It's like trying to apply the same solution to
two different problems. If the first 'solution' or goal
was CORRECT, the second one will always
....... BE WRONG!

And proportionally so!

So, predictably, the glowing success of Apollo
should immediately foreshadow a dismal failure
with "To the Moon and Mars".

Finally!

So now we can start talking about what NASA
should (could) become once the economy turns
around.

Which just might be the right amount of time for
Space Solar Power to become practical. As all the
trends like oil prices, climate change and lower
cost to orbit might be more ...aligned...by then.

Say, around the start of Obama's second term?
Plenty of time to change a lots of opinions.

Beats just talking about NASA and the latest
......climate change data....merely talking about
the weather, like some old folks home.

Imagining the best possible future is the only way
to create a worthwhile goal.


Jonathan







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