Re: What makes an ideal Moon base?

From: Andrew James Alan Welty (andrew_at_cci-29palms.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:38:21 -0700

> FUNDING
>
> Establish my dream vision of a "World Space Agency" (WSA) asap. Get
> every spacefaring nation in on the act. Why does China want to spend
> the next 30 years developing its own *primitive* space station around
> the Earth... something the Russians and Americans have already done
> and dusted decades ago? Why does India want to launch *primitive*
> lunar orbiters 10 years from now, when that's all old hat too?! Has
> anyone actually *offered* an attractive proposition to those nations
> for an opportunity to fly their flags high and proud on the roof of a
> major, 21st century, hi-tec lunar base?

This would be nice. Though there are some obstacles to overcome. Closest
we have now would be the ESA, and there you've got the individual national
space programs with their own interests that may or may not happen to
agree with ESA. We would need some model that perhaps gives the WSA full
authority for certain projects such as a lunar outpost without conflicting
with the interests of the national space agencies, could certainly
contract out some jobs to the various national space agencies but then
you'll still have them fighting over contracts, and some may think it's
unfair as some agency other then theirs got the contract, ect.

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