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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its almost a very sad moment, its the end of the manned exploration of space for pure scientific purposes. With the American's basically contracting it out, we're now looking at the explotation of space for commercial purposes.
For all of the talk of setting up a manned moon base or sending men to mars, unless its the Chinese or Russians, its just not going to happen in my lifetime.
Instead we're going to end up with fat rich tourists blasting off into space just to say they were there.
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Yup. The privatization of space. Exactly how a lot of people wanted it.
What was the purpose of the DC fly-by? Shot across the bow? Or just ceremonious?