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Re: space policy backgrounder
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Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:08:42 GMT
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Why the moon/mars idea was presented wrong and why it's actually a good idea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21420-2004Jan15.html
"...the Bush proposal has less to do with a vision of man's destiny than with a
totally dysfunctional government agency. NASA gave us the glory of Apollo, then
spent the next three decades twirling around in space in low Earth orbit
studying zero-G nausea.
It's crazy, and it might have gone on forever had it not been for the Columbia
tragedy. Columbia made painfully clear what some of us have been saying for
years: It is not only pointless to continue orbiting endlessly around the Earth;
it is ridiculously expensive and indefensibly risky. "
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| Found this interesting reading. (URL) has more info on what went into the new policy than one usually sees. There are some biases and conclusions there that not everyone will necessarily agree with but it's worth reading in my view. It says part 3 (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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