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On Moon Landing Anniversary: WANT TO EXPLORE OUTER WORLDS?
Are you old enough to have watched the first Moon landing, live? (BTW
- Neil Armstrong apparently did NOT blow his lines. He said "One small step for a man, One giant leap for Mankind." The "a" in "for a man" did not come through due to the relatively poor quality of interworld communications in 1969.) Would you like to see humans walk again on the moon? Would you like to see humans walk on Mars? Would you like to see people walk on the large array of awesome worlds that await us in the OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM? That is, on the stunningly beautiful and bizarre moons of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune? Would you like to accelerate YOUR chances of being able to exoplore these worlds, one day? If so, here's a plan: Congress will act on such things only if it is in the popular will to do so. If enough people get together to show their support for HUMAN DEEP SPACE EXPLORATION, then the President and Congress can be motivated to provide the necessary funding. Once the cost of blazing the trail to the outer solar system has been blazed by government (NASA), acceleration of plans by private industry to follow on is likely to occur. Besides, not only later, but earlier on - with the nearer term Moon and Mars missions - even the American space agency COULD do something similar to what the Russiana are already doing! We COULD sell a seat or two on some or all flights to the Moon and Mars! Not enough to pay for the whole flight, but if it's enough to defray the total cost to the tax payer SOME (by, let's say, upwards of a few hundred million dollars or more), then NASA may consider it! (Note, James Cameron, the movie producer, asked NASA about its willingness to let him fly on the Shuttle, NASA said, "Wait." Cameron would probably be still waiting of the Shuttle program had not been cut short.) Then, not to put in a plug for gambling but just to note a possibility: there's always the concept of having a spaceflight as a Lotto prize. Volvo did this with the Spaceship One-type flight that it intends to send passengers on, to float momentarily in space. Ultimately, commercial space tourism to Worlds of Jupiter, the Worlds of Saturn, including the mystery world Titan, and beyond could be spurred once NASA has set the example and developed some new technology, etc. YOU could HELP this all to happen! Interested in getting together an organization to promote this further to the public (no money nor donations involved - it will be a "labor of love" - and internet!) ? Post here or drop me a line! Here is some further explanation about getting the government to fund the technology: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...ca31c?hl=en&q= |
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