Hi Billy, Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 2, 2010, at 1:51, [email protected] wrote: > Manned flight in Space a "dead end" ? Not in principle. In practice, the space shuttle - because it was built in the 1980s - costs around a billion per launch, last I checked. If NASA were to invest those billions in developing an agile ecosystem of innovation rather than an aging fleet of shuttles, we could make human space flight -itself- both cheaper and technologically relevant. I'm not against space or NASA. There are both interesting and valuable things to get done. But much of that can be done more cheaply -by- robots rather than human beings; in fact, being forced to do that would probably make improve technology faster! I want NASA to spend it's money building the future, via science; not maintaining the past, via operations. You look at the -manned- spaceflight budget today and tell me what fraction is spent in actual real-world R&D versus operations. E -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
