(June 13, 2014 at 10:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: Easy? Funding would only be a problem if we could build and operate the vehicles...which we cannot, and then ask an astronaut aboard, which we cannot - in good faith.
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The fact that we don't have currently capable designs doesn't mean that we cannot design and build them in short order. It is simply a matter of doing the work, and that means mustering the will.