One of the few things that Shrub has proposed in his ghastly reign of terror that I agreed with was the idea of going to Mars. Well, according to the LATimes, there's a new race to get to the moon. Frankly, this is a race we can NOT afford to lose.
First arrivers (Leif Eriksson excepted) tend to be the dominant factors in new 'territory'. Add to that the new technologies that will be developed in the process of getting there, and for us to fall behind is a recipe for disaster, geopolitically (at least for US!)
Nixon blinked in the late sixties/early seventies, and we've been stuck in low Earth orbit ever since, with no profound movement to go higher. We need to shake off the malaise inherited from Watergate and get moving again. Heute der Mond, morgens das Universem!
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