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patgundIt's a good concept, but I have to wonder how much farther along we would have been if NASA had gone ahead with the various post-Apollo Saturn plans, rather than having to have to knife the baby in favour of Shuttle.
Nasa plans return to Moon by 2020 (BBC News)
When mankind first landed on the moon in 1969, I was three years old. If this plan goes as scheduled, I will be 54 when humanity returns to the moon.
It shouldn't have taken this long.
Nasa plans return to Moon by 2020 (BBC News)
When mankind first landed on the moon in 1969, I was three years old. If this plan goes as scheduled, I will be 54 when humanity returns to the moon.
It shouldn't have taken this long.
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Date: 2005-09-20 06:49 am (UTC)Maybe we should egg SpaceShipOne and other such ventures on?
Who knows, maybe The Man Who Sold The World (Robert A. Heinlein, not David Bowie) COULD happen.
Ta!
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Date: 2005-09-20 07:37 am (UTC)I wonder, on a separate note, on the results of the mission Japan launched to take samples of an asteroid...
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Date: 2005-09-20 07:20 pm (UTC)