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Step outside. Look up. There's your incentive.

• blizkreeg 10y ago
  Not sure if you meant it as snark but didn't we already do that with the moon specifically 45y ago? My question was just trying to understand incentives beyond looking up.
  • interfixus 10y ago
    No snark intended, and none, I trust, taken. There will be grubby, workaday incentives galore, all the usual politics, power, and pecuniae. "Because it's there" just grabs my fancy somewhat tighter.
    • blizkreeg 10y ago
      None taken :)
    • blendo 10y ago
      From the link: "On their way to the moon, the Apollo 17 crew took one of the most iconic photographs in space-program history, the full view of the Earth dubbed "The Blue Marble." Despite it's fame, the photograph hasn't really been appreciated, Cernan said in 2007. "What is the real meaning of seeing this picture? I've always said, I've said for a long time, I still believe it, it's going to be -- well it's almost fifty now, but fifty or a hundred years in the history of mankind before we look back and really understand the meaning of Apollo. Really understand what humankind had done when we left, when we truly left this planet, we're able to call another body in this universe our home. We did it way too early considering what we're doing now in space. It's almost as if JFK reached out into the twenty-first century where we are today, grabbed hold of a decade of time, slipped it neatly into the (nineteen) sixties and seventies (and) called it Apollo." Gene Cernan had poetry in his soul.
• pjmorris 10y ago
  It has been written ('Apollo', Murray and Cox, highly recommended) that the Apollo engineers did exactly that.