Re: NASA begins moon return effort

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:00:46 +0000 (UTC)

ed kyle (edkyle99@hotmail.com) wrote:
: "Perplexed in Peoria" <jimmenegay@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<Q0WQc.242$Ow6.49858@newssvr28.news.prodigy.com>...
: > "ed kyle" <edkyle99@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:88d21cfd.0408061105.491108ef@posting.google.com...
: > > "curlyQlink" <paulfxfoley@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<hr9Pc.5969$Jp6.957@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
: > > > A truly looney idea.
: > > >
: > > > There was only one reason for the Apollo mission: to beat the Russians.
: > > > Well, we beat 'em already.
: > > >
: > >
: > > That was the reason then. There could be new reasons to go
: > > the the Moon in the forseeable future (to beat China, for
: > > example). But I don't see the U.S. going anywhere in space
: > > as long as the current multi-hundred-billion-dollar-war/
: > > terrorism footing exists. ...
: >
: > Yes, things were much quieter in the US during the mid to late
: > 1960s.
: >
: > NOT!!!!

: Despite the fact that the U.S. had a much more powerful economy
: in the 1960s than it does now relative to the rest of the world
: (it actually exported more than it imported at the time) the
: Vietnam financial drain forced the cancellation of much of
: NASA's planned Apollo program. NASA had to cancel Saturn
: production in 1968, even before Apollo 7 was launched. The
: great dearth of NASA projects during the 1970s was a direct
: result of Vietnam.

: The U.S. is a much weaker nation now than it was then, both
: economically and, in many ways, military. I believe that
: the massive costs of the current war, combined with the
: $1.5 billion per day trade deficit that steadily drains wealth
: and power out of the country, will prevent NASA from growing
: its budget enough to launch a new Moon program for the
: foreseeable future.

Good analysis, but you are assuming that the new moon lunar project will
cost the same relatively as the previous one. I believe that the goal to
go back to the moon will be less than the first one.

Eric

: - Ed Kyle

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