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Originally Posted by MPREZIV
Shit, I could probably pull some "association ass" just by knowing you! "Hey baby, I've got a friend who's an astronaut!" [panties dropping]
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Ya well it would be a while, don't go dumping your chick just yet.
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Originally Posted by sp00ln
Do you think that we'll ever go to Mars? That would be cool.
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Ya eventually, but I think space exploration will largely continue to be unmanned. It's cheaper and we get the same or more scientific benefit as manned exploration. Manned exploration is significantly cooler, but there is just no budget for it. I hate to say it, but we could explore a lot more if we just stopped the manned exploration programs.
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Originally Posted by Ezdno
If you have the opportunity to do it, then you should. I think your mistaken about the future of the NASA program, I think in the near future with the added pressure from the two private companies putting space travel in the grasp of the general "RICH" public, the NASA program will be looking to raise the bar and move towards deep space. New Galaxies. Alien Tang!
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I doubt it, the privateers aren't really competition for NASA. They are strictly for novelty value of this point. If they start taking people on tours of the moon for example, NASA might get public pressure that they aren't doing enough, but I think that would be the extent of it.
If anyone is interested in this stuff, there is a book called
Entering Space by Robert Zubrin. I highly recommend it and most of it is non-technical.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/158...Fencoding=UTF8