Five New Goals For the Space Program
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I see no evidence that the U.S. government, or any government, for that matter, has much interest in a human presence in space. In fact, the evidence suggests that governments are opposed to high frontiersmanship on gerneral principles.Consider the always-impending congressional threats to zero out the budget for the international space station, consider the uninspired leadership that made the thing international to begin with. Consider, too, NASA's tepid, almost reluctant, efforts to reduce the cost of space transportation. Consider NASA's vanishingly small budget, in view of its charter (about 1% of the total).
I could go on (and on), but you get the idea.
Why do you take such a concilliatory attitude toward Congress? I suggest that what Robert Zubrin of the Mars Society does is much more effective. By the time he's done, it seems, no one will get a nickel for their election funds from Hollywood if they haven't endorsed an expedition to Mars.
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