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Re: NASA IS GOING BACK BABY
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lugnet.space
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Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:43:58 GMT
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"Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@rmspam.ugs.rmspam.com> wrote in message
news:JA4GuG.E05@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.space, Tony Alexander wrote:
> > In lugnet.space, Larry Lesser wrote:
> > > HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- NASA's plans for returning people to the moon --
> > > an
> > > objective called for by President Bush in 2004 -- includes establishing
> > > a
> > > permanent outpost that would be used to prepare for a manned trip to
> > > Mars.
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> > Holy billions and billions, Sa-gan!!!
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> > OK, first, 3 days and no reply to the BIGGEST NEWS of this decade??
> > What's up
> > with that, folks? Are there no more .spacers here?
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> It should be interesting to see what NASA does, but what I'm hoping for is
> NASA
> becoming irrelevant to space travel. That is, I'm hoping that manned
> commercial
> space activity passes NASA sometime in the next decade or two.
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> Why? Same reason we don't see NASA building passenger airliners and
> operating
> the national airline in the US.
Jeff, your post met my sentiments exactly. I'm really glad to see no
national flags on the "Mars Mission" sets - and none on the "Life on Mars"
sets either.
I saw this video of Burt Rutan (private spaceship design pioneer) where he
addressed this very subject - it's a video that should get the gears turning
to inspire all .space folk to explore new ideas.
Video Link:
http://groups.imeem.com/nbZe-TWq/video/Nf_7wUyK/rutan_on_public_vs_private_space_exploration/
The concept of lots of different groups involved in space exploration
invigorated the Lego Space theme during the mid-to-late 80's. We had
Futron, Blacktron, Space Police (a force that are more fun if they're not
*always* the good guys). Since then we've had a lot more interesting space
themes and adventures than would have been possible with the classic space
faction alone. :)
I join Burt and Jeff in the idea that the most rapid technological progress
will come not from "cooperating governments", but instead from competing
enterprises of all kinds.
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| First off, (having missed the start of this thread), I really wasn't all that shook up by the announcment for the simple reason that the announcement doesn't mean anything. Any more than it did with the previous "we're going to Mars" pushes. (...) (...) (17 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) It should be interesting to see what NASA does, but what I'm hoping for is NASA becoming irrelevant to space travel. That is, I'm hoping that manned commercial space activity passes NASA sometime in the next decade or two. Why? Same reason we (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.space)
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