House committee staff members defend NASA authorization bill

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House Science Committee staff members insist that their bill does not preclude NASA's lunar exploration goals. Others feel differently.

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[Sam]

Orbit Mars in '33 not land the bill says. Only hope is Musk I am afraid, as I am 75.

 

[Hari]

It's so anti Moon that it verges on lunacy. Mars should be left to robots until all the critical technology to sustain human life is perfected. And there is no better place for that than the Moon.

 

[Mrhelton]

I agree with Sam and Hari. Doing an orbital mission to Mars is a waste of 4 years and has risk enough to redo that mission before landing. To significantly reduce risk, it is much better to focus on using the Moon for a landing mission. Treat the Moon as a little 'Mars'. Repeat several times to perfect a landing and a 'first base' mission. Then set out for Mars. The landing can always be changed to orbit only, if problems arise. Adjustments would be made to account for no atmosphere on the Moon and smaller gravity. Mars can be done by 2033 with lower total cost and much less risk - IMO.

 

[egribble]

Whole thing is crazy, SLS redundant due to private sector demonstrating re-usability. Uses old shuttle engines and dangerous solid fuel rockets. Gateway unnessesary, go to moon direct. Not landing on Mars? ridiculous. Hope U.S. taxpayers have deep pockets.

 

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