I'd like more space exploration, instead of less. I've always been disappointed by the slow down after the moon missions. Then the change of focus from exploration to exploitation. I would have loved to see an assembly point in orbit to be able to build vehicles of exploration where we get around the problem of gravity and launches. Or even a working colony on the moon, or something.
Are we risk adverse? Probes are great and everything but I feel like we should have been a lot further along in terms of manned missions to mars by now.
sometimes you just need to damn the torpedoes. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited by this, just like I get excited by imagery coming in from the farthest reaches of space. But space exploration should be something that everyone can rally around and feel inspired by.
The Shuttle was a good premise as a transport truck, but it to me always felt like a piece of instead of the focus of space programs.
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