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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] My interest is peaked by Bush's imminent announcement for the almost total overhaul of NASA priorities, due on Wednesday. Among the things he wants to do is ditch the space shuttle and head back to the moon and ultimately to Mars. Key to this strategy, many experts say, is to abandon the troubled ISS as soon as possible and focus on putting a permenant station up at L1. Why? An L1 waystation would facilitate trips to the moon, since it's way easier to get people to L1 with one shuttle system and then to the moon with another, than with one ship. Plus, it's also really easy to keep a station floating at L1 in an area of gravitational cancellation, than in low earth orbit where you have to reboost the station to keep it flying. Following this is a permenant presence on the Moon, which would theorhetically allow for new technologies to be tested out for an ultimate venture to Mars. The Moon could offer other opportunites besides science in the immediate future, such as a solar power source, and a solar or stellar observatory unencumbered by an atmosphere. As much a fan as I am of the manned space program, I think Bush is nuts for doing this. We've got plenty of stuff to fix on Earth, and I personally think that the ISS still has plenty to offer. IMO, if NASA is to get more money, they should use it to complete and expand the ISS, replace the shuttle, and focus on lots and lots of unmanned probes to the Moon, Mars and Jupiter. The moon is a secondary priority, and Mars is a far-distant third. In the end though, this announcement, and the potential ADDITIONAL waste of billions of dollars by NASA into cool things that'll get cancelled later by following administrations, comes down to one thing. Stoopid re-election politics. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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