Money quote
McFly said
>IMHO, the simple fact that we can go to the moon is sufficient reason to
>do so. It's attainable, and it's worthwhile for what we can learn and for the
>skills we can (re)develop.
We were on the Moon in 1972. The American people and the media got bored with it, zeroed out the budgets, fired all the engineers, took a cutting torch to the technology and hauled it all away to museums and scrap yards. History is waving a big red flag about the wisdom of first going to the Moon and ***THEN*** going to Mars. There will be no "THEN".
Gary