NASA formally unveils lunar exploration architecture

Science is not the reason for going up - that is philosophical -
science is what you do when you are there, along with all the house
keeping chores. Colonisation, if it happens at all, is generally not
what you do when you first arrive on a new world, as the history of
earth exploration will attest, first you look around and then you
decide where to stay and why and that may take decades or centuries.
In short science is a very useful activity to perform if you have
decided to go to new worlds in the first place. Besides, find a
politician that understands science!


Rand Simberg wrote:
On 19 Sep 2005 16:40:45 -0700, in a place far, far away, "dasun"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Science and lots of it, skip the political baloney and stick to the
subject!

Science will never justify the vast amounts of money being spent on
human spaceflight, for good reason.