No, I will NOT be bored by true new exploration as I'd suggested. I followed every Apollo mission in intimate detail.
Yes, I am bored by ISS, except for watching it cross the night sky, a wonderful experience for me.
Yes, by and large actual spaceflight to anywhere per-se is booring. 2001 captured that perfectly. But this acknowlegement does not mean that missions exploring the lunar poles, NEOs and the canyons of Mars would not be very exciting and stimulating to space buffs. Those missions GO somewhere. It's really hard to get excited about a glorified Merry_Go_Round. These missions could stimulate a next generation of space scientists and interested kids. We've given the younger post-Apollo kids nothing to get excited about in manned exploration, no wonder all the smart kids go into the computer industry. We need another generation of Tsiolkovsky's, Goddards, Von Brauns (except for that nasty London bit) and Armstrongs.
-philw (a not-so-smart ex-kid who went into computers)
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