On 12 Jan 2006 19:44:03 -0800, "Bob Haller" wrote:

This is just the first cut, we can watch as the program started with
good ideas shrinks to just a LEO manned and unmanned craft.

all the rest will be lost... no moon, no mars... no nothing...

Like what happened when the Shuttle was propsed as the building block
for a Moon/Mars architecture that was never built?

Possibly.

But nothing is carved in stone. The Congress that decided that there
was no point in more flights to the Moon once we'd beat the Russians
is not the Congress we have today. If successive adminstration remain
committed to the VSE, then we will get back to the Moon and on to
Mars.



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