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Spaceliner Cosmos is launched about, oh, 50 years from now according to 2061: Odyssey Three. I can get the exact year when I get home.
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Yeah, and Dave Bowman should already be on his way to Saturn by now, too. Looks like somebody at NASA dropped the ball on that one...
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Somebody? Singular? Don't think so.
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To be honest, the American Public dropped the ball.
We could have kept interest in the program high. We could have made space development an issue. We could have laughed William Proxmire out of office. We could have kicked people dumb enough to say 'we should be spending that money on welfare,' despite the fact that the space budget was a drop in the bucket compared to what was already being poured in, square in the butt.
We didn't.
Or. some brave soul in government could have gone against the prevailing wisdom and sacrificed polital future for the future of mankind, but they didn't.
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The legendary tradition of ass-covering, yes?
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Or at least prevent the system from getting SO horribly designed that we have the sad state of affairs we have now. (Editor's note: For a book that details the sad state of affairs we have now and the kickass state of affairs we could have, read "Entering Space" by Robert Zubrin c.1998).
Had we a dozen or so public officials that cumulatively had half an ounce of integrity after Apollo, we wouldn't have a space agency that actively tries to discourage a private space infrastructure from developing.
::Suddenly realizes every bad thing he says about NASA hurts his future chances for flying for them. Quickly shuts up.::
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