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Originally Posted by razark
But it's so much fun yelling to the folks on the tram that it was all done on a sound stage.  |
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But doing a moon shot would be setting the program back. We did it 40 years ago. What would doing it again prove? That we can still do what we did 40 years ago?
If we want to make progress in space exploration, we need to go places we haven't been yet. The moon offers very little to us right now. Our next goal should be setting up a sustainable outpost on Mars. Planting flags and leaving footprints is not going to get us anywhere.
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This is the 'moon shot' that I was referring to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_program
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President George W. Bush originally offered the proposal[20] as a way to "establish an extended human presence on the Moon" to "vastly reduce the costs of further space exploration." Inclusive to this would be the "harvesting and processing of lunar soil into rocket fuel or breathable air." According to Bush, experience gained could help "develop and test new approaches and technologies and systems"[20] to begin a "sustainable course of long-term exploration."[21]
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It would be more than just landing a couple of guys and a dune buggy on the surface of the moon.