[CaptainCrunch]

Its just seems that the concept of space exploration has completely lost steam, what should be one of the great focuses to bring all of us together has basically become a courier service.

We're still using concepts and base technology from the 70's, even moreso with the retirement of the re-usable Space Shuttles.

We're been stuck for so long with the concept of just getting things into orbit, that we don't really get all that excited about getting people beyond that.

After man finished with the moon, the discussion was, what's next, where do we go from here?

Long range trips to mars, bases on the moon.

Now rockets are there to haul freight and act as a bus services.

Even the vaunted private industry is more interested in celebrity orbits then building a hotel in space, or looking at getting to the moon or mars or wherever for the minerals.

I don't know whether we've lost our desire to explore, to do the difficult thing.

But NASA is pretty well dead. The Russian's are using the same things that failed 20 or 30 or 40 years ago and the Chinese are following suit.

The International Space station is nice, but it just doesn't seem to be all of that forward thinking.

There has to be more to space exploration then to experiment on the effects of low gravity on screws.