Re: In space, where will we be in 30 years?

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 07/05/04


Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:30:04 GMT

On Sun, 23 May 2004 21:02:01 -0500, in a place far, far away, Joe
Strout <joe@strout.net> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>There is no "Bush's Mars plan." Where do people get this idea? It is a
>plan for establishing a presence on the Moon.

No, it's a plan for moving out into the solar system. The moon is
just a first step. Having "plans" for anything beyond that would be
fooish and hubristic, like Stalinist/Maoist "five-year plans."



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