(August 5, 2010 at 7:23 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Space flight should go commercial.
If we wait for governments to get their shit together nothing will ever happen.
We should have been been on Mars by now.
(August 5, 2010 at 7:54 am)Tiberius Wrote: I think Obama realized the economy just couldn't support space flights right now...
I agree with these comments.
In fact its one of the things Obama said in his speech back in January. That private enterprise is essential in the future of space exploration. Personally I think if ITER gets off the ground (I know, its been 10 years already and still no real progress) then we will see commercial space flight really take off. I’ll go into details on this point if anyone is curious enough.
(August 5, 2010 at 8:23 am)lrh9 Wrote: Well... To be quite frank space programs are essentially dead without some breakthrough that would permit ftl or apparent ftl travel.
Could you expand on this please? Why do you think FTL is needed for exploring the solar system?
I agree once we have explored our own little corner of space we will need to look into vastly improved propulsion techniques, but at the moment I don’t see how its relevant.
