[FPSPACE] A very interesting story!

[agzak at optonline.net]

The problem, of course, is that political goals in space tend to favor the technology, which does not make economic sense for long-term exploration. Therefore, once the political goal is reached we are stuck with non-reusable and unaffordable hardware.

Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com



----- Original Message -----
From: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at msn.com>
Date: Saturday, January 3, 2009 7:05 am
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] A very interesting story!
To: paolo.ulivi at tiscali.it
Cc: fpspace <fpspace at friends-partners.org>

> 
> Since that seems to be the primary motivation for the only US 
> organization so
> far that has the resources and funding to actually send humans to 
> the Moon,
> then if that is what it takes to get us on the Moon permanently, so 
> be it.
> 
> The science and preserving mankind in more than one basket will 
> always follow.
> 
> Larry
> > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:32:38 +0100> From: 
> paolo.ulivi at tiscali.it> CC: fpspace at friends-partners.org> Subject: 
> Re: [FPSPACE] A very interesting story!> > History repeating. Are 
> the US going back to the Moon on a political agenda?> > > Peter 
> Pesavento wrote:> >> > 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090102/pl_bloomberg/aovrno0oj41g> >> > It appears that the Obama Administration might want to return > > astronauts to the Moon much sooner than the Chinese…> >> > _______________________________________________> FPSPACE mailing list> FPSPACE at friends-partners.org> http://www.friends-partners.org/mailman/listinfo/fpspace