re: Griffin tries to pitch "lifeboat Mars"
I mentioned the weather sats separately. In this case I'm talking about the landsats, but that is a trademark here.
You also conveniently left out microwave transmission of electric power on the Moon.
You're looking for a fight, while I am looking for a discussion.
Let me see if I can clear this up for you. I don't think there is enough public support to enable sending men to Mars. If we can get to the Moon, then we can get to Mars, but the only compelling reason I can find right now for returning to the Moon is to do CAPS.
No one here thinks that they could shut the whole thing down, but it happened before with Apollo and it could happen again.