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  Orion, SLS, Mars and the future of exploration (Page 2)

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Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-04-2016 10:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Jim Behling:
That can be accomplished without a lunar base or manned expeditions to Mars.
Per recent years' Congressional legislation:
Human exploration deeper into the Solar System shall be a core mission of the Administration. It is the policy of the United States that the goal of the Administration's exploration program shall be to successfully conduct a crewed mission to the surface of Mars to begin human exploration of that planet. The use of the surface of the Moon, cis-lunar space, near-Earth asteroids, Lagrangian points, and Martian moons may be pursued provided they are properly incorporated into the Human Exploration Roadmap described in section 70504 of title 51, United States Code.

Jim Behling
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posted 03-04-2016 10:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jim Behling   Click Here to Email Jim Behling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by oly:
With Orion mission schedule so sparse enthusiasm for space missions needs to be promoted.
If "space" is so worth it, it doesn't need to be promoted. Manned space travel has to stand on it own. It has to provide tangible ROI and not some esoteric theme like the "need to explore or to advance the human race." It all boils down to money. Unless there is a way to make money in space other than by comsats, there is little incentive to more.

Apollo existed to beat the Soviets, it wasn't for scientific knowledge or colonization.

Jim Behling
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posted 03-04-2016 10:08 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jim Behling   Click Here to Email Jim Behling     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Per recent years' Congressional legislation...
Basically empty words since appropriation acts have not been providing adequate funding.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-04-2016 10:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Whether funded or not, it is enacted policy.


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