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The private companies will take the money and after it has been spent they will discover that... (Oh wonder) they can't deliver anything because they lacked the expertise and funds to redo what NASA did during all those decades of development. Since the U.S. economy will be in a far worst state than now, the question of rebuilding NASA will not even be posed. Expertise will be already lost, the industrial tissue that made human space travel posible will be gone. At that time, other nations will be travelling to the moon. This is not the end of manned space exploration, just the end of american manned space exploration. We can discuss this again in 2015. P.S. I remember all those republicans crying in this newsgroup all these years: DESTROY NASA! JUST PRIVATE COMPANIES SHOULD DO SPACE TRAVEL They are well served now. |
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At that time, other nations will be travelling to the moon. I seriusly doubt they have the will, or the budget, to do that. Note that Russia hasn't landed anyone there yet, which they certainly could have done by now if they had wanted to. This is not the end of manned space exploration, just the end of american manned space exploration. We can discuss this again in 2015. P.S. I remember all those republicans crying in this newsgroup all these years: DESTROY NASA! JUST PRIVATE COMPANIES SHOULD DO SPACE TRAVEL They are well served now. Rand Simberg has a article on the irony of all this: http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=24483 Pat |
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"jacob navia" wrote in message ... Obvious The private companies will take the money and after it has been spent they will discover that... (Oh wonder) they can't deliver anything because they lacked the expertise and funds to redo what NASA did during all those decades of development. Why did we go to the Moon the first time? To beat the Soviets and win the nuclear missile race. So why would it be any different now? This time we were going to race the Chinese to the Moon, to win the missile defense race. I'm thanking God right now, literally, that we're not about to repeat the most dangerous and wasteful forty years in our history. Where the two richest nations on earth wasted every last dime building a skeleton of almost self-aware measures and countermeasures, stretching from the.... "Earth to the Moon". From a geo-political standpoint, we just witnessed a magnificent turning point. Jonathan s Since the U.S. economy will be in a far worst state than now, the question of rebuilding NASA will not even be posed. Expertise will be already lost, the industrial tissue that made human space travel posible will be gone. At that time, other nations will be travelling to the moon. This is not the end of manned space exploration, just the end of american manned space exploration. We can discuss this again in 2015. P.S. I remember all those republicans crying in this newsgroup all these years: DESTROY NASA! JUST PRIVATE COMPANIES SHOULD DO SPACE TRAVEL They are well served now. |
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