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The NASA's decision to support SpaceX with money and expertise is a step in the right direction. NASA (and Roscosmos) should delegate to private companies all
by sasha-dv 14y ago
The NASA's decision to support SpaceX with money and expertise is a step in the right direction.
NASA (and Roscosmos) should delegate to private companies all of the operations in LEO. They should focus their efforts on sending humans deeper into space.
I want to see a day when docking at the ISS is considered a boring affair.
- lucian1900 14y agoI agree, except about sending humans deeper into space. It seems much cheaper and more useful to send many, many machines deeper into space.
- rbanffy 14y agoMachines will never describe the surface of a new world as "magnificent desolation". Not really - some day, they'll share this trait with humans - but it will take some time. I want humans to experience this, even if briefly, before our much more capable successors take the lead from us relics.
- InclinedPlane 14y agoThe goal of spaceflight is not merely exploration, it is also colonization, and adventure. The rest of the Universe is just a place, and humans will go there. Not because it is the only way to learn about it, but merely because we can.