(June 13, 2014 at 9:19 am)Rhythm Wrote: Now for the shitty part. While we -did- get our business together and go to the moon back in the day...we are currently incapable of repeating the trip....
You're perfectly capable, there's just no demand for it. We could put a man on Mars if we really wanted to, problem is there really isn't an urgent need for it. Back in the day there was an urgent need because of the whole space race thing, having to beat the Russians etc and the cold war.
Nowadays there's not a driving force like that to spur any particular country into going to the moon or further. If there was no doubt we'd be doing it.
I think the future of space travel is with commercial enterprises though, once more businesses start piling the money into space exploration it will become the most lucrative business venture out there, and once that happens we'll be colonising and all sorts. It might even happen sooner than people think.
