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Originally posted by Uryoces
We need a follow up to the Apollo program. The space shuttle is very pretty, and I had high hopes for it, but we need to move on. We need to get our act together and fix the space station to use it as a way point and not a destination. Southern polar region of the moon, anyone?
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Why? What is the strategic objective? To put men on the southern moon only for the glory of man? That is the reasoning that got us into this Space Station fiasco in the first place. And the need to maintain a schedule on that fiasco resulted in rationalization best summarized as the Columbia disaster.
Doing things without good logic reasons is simply wrong. Originally it was either the Space Station or the Super Collider. Now the Space Station does no science and the quantum physics world will soon be leaving the US to continue their research where necessary equipment will be available - Cern. Why then continue so much money on many space flight that has little logical purpose?
BTW, what is necessary to continue Moore's Law. A Space Station or quantum physics? What made gigahertz disk drives possible? Quantum physics - not a rocket launch.