"We choose to return to the moon because we have
unfinished business in space. America will not be left behind in scientific and commercial enterprises. This will be the start of America
restoring its place in human spaceflight on the high frontier. We
will open new doors to research, commerce, and industry on other worlds with
this endeavor. We will establish a lunar research post in orbit and on the
moon. We will provide the platform for celestial industries with a mind to
opening new markets and new discoveries. And along the way we will discover more about our universe than we have ever imagined. America will be the factory that
manufactures what was once fiction into reality. We have always been an entrepreneurial
people and with these steps we will demonstrate our ability to do so and to succeed.”
Recently TMRO did an episode on the National Space Council (NSC) event that had me thinking about America's role in space in the next decade. As a space fan, I'm disappointed in the overall direction the US has taken in the past 10 years in space. While I'm happy about the robotic missions NASA has done in the past decade , human spaceflight has gone nowhere in America. I'm aware that SLS (Space Launch System) is coming (possibly, I'm doubtful) but I feel that we need to develop SLS and at the same time grow commercial launch providers with purpose . Moon versus Mars For those that watched the NSC event, the intent is to get America on a "Moon, Mars" plan. For some online, there's a lot of disagreement about going to the Moon first before Mars. For the uneducated, I'll briefly go into the reasons why many feel the Moon is a distraction to Mars. Essentially the arguments boil down to the fact that the engineering problems for Mars are diff...
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