Which space mission would you choose?

[Thumpalumpacus]

Spent a good portion of the evening reading up on STS-25 and -107.

After that, I'm not sure I'd volunteer for any mission in a NASA meatwagon.

[chimp3]

I am for all the missions on the list. For all of you. The sooner you H. Sapiens escape the better. Us chimps don't go anywhere voluntarily where there are not figs teeming with insect larva. Ham was not a space hero to us. He got suckered. Never would have volunteered. He had PTSD after the U.S. launched him into orbit.

[paulpablo]

I'm going to say it at the risk of facing a fuck load of rage and being proven wrong.

I don't see the point in any of those missions in the slightest.

Instead of a base on the moon for people to live they could spend the money making places in America more livable.  Just as one example I'm not definitely saying the money should be spent that way.

[Athene]

Something else. 
Like accompany a salvage team to LV-426, and get it on.

...Killin' xenomorphs, that is.

[Rev. Rye]

I've read Watchmen too many times to say anything but "manned mission to Mars."

To be fair, by this point, manned space travel is largely useless, but it's simply too awesome for me to ignore.

[Fake Messiah]

Astronomy enthusiast Fraser Cain made an exciting video recently talking about possible explorations of Titan. For instance he claims that putting an airplane there, that would fly all over Titan, would cost 700 million dollars. There are some other projects like submarines





And also there is a documentary coming out called "Fight for Space" which features some impressive names not just in field of science that want to send clear message to the politicians to boost space program from where it is now.

[The Grand Nudger]

I'm easy..I'd settle for a manned mission to des moines...if it meant I got to sit in a spaceship.

[dyresand]

space colonization were fucking up to the earth to much we need to get off of it before it's totally destroyed
and or well it becomes uninhabitable because we don't want to get off fossil fuels.

[Anomalocaris]

I agree the most important ultimate aim of space travel is human colonization. But we are probable at least a century from meaningful human colonization within the solar system, and several centuries from interstellar colonization.

To put it bluntly, the technology to overcome the primary hurdle in those endeavors have not advanced, even incrementally, too much since Sputnik. To bring those endeavors closer required considerable breakthroughs in basic science. So the best use of resources to bring truly meaning manned space travel closer is not to squander available resources on prestigious but ultimately meaningless manned stunts like lunar or mars landings now, but to invest the funds in basic and applied science to bring forward the date when we would acquire the scientific and technological skills to make manned space travel economic.

[dyresand]

I agree the most important ultimate aim of space travel is human colonization.   But we are probable at least a century from meaningful human colonization within the solar system, and several centuries from interstellar colonization.

To put it bluntly, the technology to overcome the primary hurdle in those endeavors have not advanced, even incrementally, too much since Sputnik.  To bring those endeavors closer required considerable breakthroughs in basic science. So the best use of resources to bring truly meaning manned space travel closer is not to squander available resources on prestigious but ultimately meaningless manned stunts like lunar or mars landings now, but to invest the funds in basic and applied science to bring forward the date when we would acquire the scientific and technological skills to make manned space travel economic.

We can have those advancements  now if we stopped bombing brown people in the middle east and focused on NASA and giving them a real budget.
Hell even then we could start producing and manufacturing and also have enough money to R&D carbon negative technology as well. I don't see 400PPM
of Co2 as a permanent thing i see it as a challenge we should start working on solving because if we don't solve it were all going to die.