Re: Stick/CEV Propulsion News


Gene Cash wrote:


> > That is a subset of a larger question: What are the astronauts
> > supposed to do on the moon? One-week expeditions can do
> > Apollo-style geology(*). After that, "what else" starts to
> > come up.

> Hm, I don't think so... do you seriously think that if you put a
> geologist[*] on the Moon, a week later he's going to dust his hands and
> say "ok, all done. let's go home." ? :)

Perhaps it would informative to ask a geologist about that. But be
careful, just to repeat the point, not to fall into the mode of
justifying the missions on the basis of geology or other science
until the day comes when the science can bear that burden. Doing
science as a framework for accomplishing the primary goal of
developing and proving space-faring technologies would be fine;
doing it for its own sake wouldn't be fine for that oft-repeated
foreseeable future.

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