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Topic: Space Tourism and the Future of the Program
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Bidlo Kwerve
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Member # 109
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posted 05-05-2001 06:48 AM
     
First off, if you've paid any attention to the news recently, you've heard about Dennis Tito (sp?), the American multi-millionaire who paid 20 mil to go aboard a Soyuz space rocket with the Russians. I think this is a good idea, if anything, it gets us doing new things in space, which is something we haven't done since the Space Shuttle 20 years ago. I don't think in our lifetime we'll be able to go into space as tourists, (the sheer expense is still too great), but who knows, one day there might be a McDonalds on the Moon.Also, this raises the issue of what we're doing in space right now. I see absolutely NO reason why we haven't gone back to moon in what, almost 30 years? The single greatest accomplishment of mankind since Prometheus gave us fire (well, then I guess we didn't do that  ), and we've made it almost a footnote. I think 1-We should go back to the moon. Number 2, I think within 30 years, we should devote all of our resources to go to Mars. Why? Because it's there. At this point, it would be impossible, of course, but the same thing was said about SPACE travel in the 1930s, and by the end of the 1950s, we were nearly sending men into low orbit, by 1960, the Soviets had a satelite, next Gagarin went up, etc. In 1880, they thought airplanes would be hundreds of years away. So, you with me on this, or do you want our money spent on some social programs? ------------------
[monger=dc143c,708090]Whenever the shades of night are falling...it's Skyline time[/monger]
Posts: 6 | From: USA | Registered: May 2001 | Logged: 152.163.205.81
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