In a message dated 4/13/2001 10:15:25 AM Alaskan Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is the driving force behind space exploration money(profit)? Yes.
Exploration just for the sake of exploration? Yes. Scientific
investigation? Yes. Finding more room for humans? Yes. So the answer is
Frankly, I don't really care about the pluto mission. I'm not
sure why everyone else does. Is there something valuable and important to
be learned from studying pluto? Not that I can see. Am I missing
something
here?
Yes, it's called exploration. Science is not the reason we send
the skies!
Gail Leatherwood
- Original Message -
From: "Edwin Kite" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: NASA Funding
Frankly, I don't really care about the pluto mission. I'm not
sure why everyone else does. Is ther
In a message dated 4/12/2001 1:08:45 PM Alaskan Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, it's called exploration. Science is not the reason we send spacecraft
to the planets; if it was, why would NASA's budget be as large as the rest
of science - excluding medicine - put together? Science
It doesn't really upset me that the Pluto Express might get derailed, and
it is good news that some effort will be going in to developing more efficient
means of transportation around our little system here. Pluto is a long way off,
and I know we must start somewhere inasmuch as the lead
