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planetling
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In our lifetime:
There will be no manned mission to Mars.
Though it would be nice and I am in full favor, is HLV really necessary to accomplish what we dream to do?
There will be no probes sent to Europa, at least on a serious scale.
There will be no probes sent to Titan, at least on a serious scale.
The 2 Voyagers, as awe-inspiring and incredible as they are, will cease to function in a decade +/- (RTG depletion). There are no plans to send additional craft beyond the interstellar medium, at least utilizing auto thermal or light technology to power on data record units hundreds or thousands of years into the future (just in case we are extinct and by a quark of a chance some other civilization stumbles across it/them).
There will be no Moon base.
There will be no additional space stations, least of all BEO.
My hard-earned tax money keeps going down the crapper (even if only pennies). I would much rather NASA apply for GRANTS across the board, than to have Senate/Congress authorize/cancel projects before allocating out of the fed budget. At least then NASA would have a slightly better chance to spend money a little more wisely.
There will be no manned mission to Mars.
Though it would be nice and I am in full favor, is HLV really necessary to accomplish what we dream to do?
There will be no probes sent to Europa, at least on a serious scale.
There will be no probes sent to Titan, at least on a serious scale.
The 2 Voyagers, as awe-inspiring and incredible as they are, will cease to function in a decade +/- (RTG depletion). There are no plans to send additional craft beyond the interstellar medium, at least utilizing auto thermal or light technology to power on data record units hundreds or thousands of years into the future (just in case we are extinct and by a quark of a chance some other civilization stumbles across it/them).
There will be no Moon base.
There will be no additional space stations, least of all BEO.
My hard-earned tax money keeps going down the crapper (even if only pennies). I would much rather NASA apply for GRANTS across the board, than to have Senate/Congress authorize/cancel projects before allocating out of the fed budget. At least then NASA would have a slightly better chance to spend money a little more wisely.