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Not without a focus. The mission to go to the Moon wasn’t just a mission to go to the Moon, it was also a mission to come back from the Moon. This was basicall
by SllX 3y ago
Not without a focus.
The mission to go to the Moon wasn’t just a mission to go to the Moon, it was also a mission to come back from the Moon. This was basically a blank check and a massive cross-disciplinary exercise.
Our next focus should be on Mars with exactly the same criteria: get people to Mars and also get them back as part of the same mission. It will be much more difficult than getting to the Moon and back and that’s exactly the reason to do it.
- idiotsecant 3y agoGoing to Mars with real live squishy humans would no doubt be cool. Getting them back in 1 piece would be even cooler. I'd argue capturing near-earth asteroids and starting to build a functional zero-g industry around earth is more useful though. I think those two things are pretty orthogonal.
- piva00 3y agoI'd love to see a Mars space race between China and the USA. If there's another cold war brewing let's at least only keep the cool aspects of the last one and leave the saber rattling bullshit behind in history...
- t0bia_s 3y agoInvest ridicolous amount of money, time, effort and passion to space colonialism instead of solving problems with my neighbours sound hypocritical for me.
- light_hue_1 3y agoScience budgets are already so absurdly low that this idea of getting people to Mars will just sap them further. This just isn't wise spending given the priorities that we have, like not destroying the planet further. For half a century we have been massively slashing science spending. From a peak of 2.5% GDP in 1962 steadily down to about 0.5% today. There's not much left.