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A better plan needs more money. To secure the money the US has to be filled with enthusiasm.
by Fuzzwah 12y ago
A better plan needs more money. To secure the money the US has to be filled with enthusiasm.
- melling 12y agoNot thinking outside the box. Thankfully Elon is. Hopefully, a few other engineers/businessmen will. NASA has a $20 billion budget. WhatsApp cost almost NASA's budget. Uber is already valued at $41 billion. Apple earned $181 billion in fiscal 2014. Perhaps a half dozen companies will create a business around space and we'll have a trillion dollar space industry to augment NASA's puny budget.
- Fuzzwah 12y agoMy hopes are aligned with this. I suspect that some of those companies will be run by people who got enthused by what NASA is doing now.
- sehugg 12y agoWe've got plenty of plans -- let's pick one already! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manned_Mars_mission_plans_in_the_20th_century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manned_Mars_mission_pla...