Re: Space Access Update #112 9/19/05

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:45:43 +0200, Paul F. Dietz <dietz@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Josh Hill wrote:

It's a matter of priorities. I'd rather the government wasted money on
suboptimal space programs than on $250 million bridges to uninhabited
islands in Alaska.


Space fans really should stop resorting to the 'bigger rat' defense.
It doesn't work, and just sounds like whining.

Paul

I think NASA and commercial vendors should be more cerative in finding ways to make
space pay. Like mining the moon and then sending the material to factories in earth orbit.
I don't think they think big enough to make it pay. A underfunded space program might
be no more good than no space program.

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