Reply #18: This is important. It should be done. [View All]

[Meldread]

The United States is capable of doing more than one thing at once. We should head back to the Moon and the sooner the better. There are some things that Robots just can't do for us. I would have preferred, though, had NASA been more ambitious in it's plan to actually setup a base on the moon. Launching space-crafts from the moon would be much cheaper and easier than on Earth.

Not only that, it would be interesting prospects for mining the moon for materials that we can ship back to Earth. NASA just isn't as ambitious as I'd like it to be. When we first said we were going to the moon, damn it, we put our all behind it and did it. Now it takes nearly two decades to do something similar with even MORE powerful technology.

The budget is a mess but 100 Billion is a drop in the bucket. Besides if the US does not want to do it, Scientists will look elsewhere.

Personally, I think we should dissolve NASA and other world space agencies and just form a International Space Agency and have all our resources pooled into one spot from various countries around the world.