"going around in circles"
Your words Keith, from your book - but unless you admit that its Tumlinson's slogan, its plagarism.
In your mind, as in Tumlinson's, ISS is a waste - anything that is not direct manned flight to Mars is a waste - and of course, as the savior of NASA, manned flight to Mars has to be the essential goal, it has to be the national will, it has to be something that everyone wants -
except that they don't
Any publisher is free to have his biases, but he is never free to conceal them from his readers...
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