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Our biggest problem with space exploration is our postmodern risk aversion mentality, part of the the weakening and hyperfeminization of our society.
NASA doesn't need more money. $20B a year is enough, $30B would be great
How much is the space force getting?
* Because Americans are frontier settlers.
* Humanity Insurance
* National Prestige
Many make the argument that we need to fix our problems on earth before we venture beyond our atmosphere. I argue that the venture will help solve humanities problems.
Those comments resulted in some modifications intended to streamline the process and give companies more flexibility. One of the biggest is that NASA will no longer require lunar landers to dock with the lunar Gateway to serve as a staging point, at least for initial missions to the lunar surface.
CornPoptheOriginalGangster says
We went to the moon after Kennedy Implored "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country," and challenged every American to contribute in some way to the public good. There is no reason that we can't expand out into space. The technology will expand with the problems. The advanced technology will also let us "fix" or at least adapt to
global warmingclimate change.We just need the right leaders who would rather argue over how to get back to the moon and beyond rather than if the president grabbed a pussy (what real man hasn't?) or if a supreme court justices' penis somehow ended up in some young ladies hand 30 years ago.