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sasha-dv | 13 years ago

The NASA's decision to support SpaceX with money and expertise is a step in the right direction.

NASA (and Roscosmos) should delegate to private companies all of the operations in LEO. They should focus their efforts on sending humans deeper into space.

I want to see a day when docking at the ISS is considered a boring affair.

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lucian1900|13 years ago

I agree, except about sending humans deeper into space. It seems much cheaper and more useful to send many, many machines deeper into space.

InclinedPlane|13 years ago

The goal of spaceflight is not merely exploration, it is also colonization, and adventure. The rest of the Universe is just a place, and humans will go there. Not because it is the only way to learn about it, but merely because we can.

rbanffy|13 years ago

Machines will never describe the surface of a new world as "magnificent desolation".

Not really - some day, they'll share this trait with humans - but it will take some time. I want humans to experience this, even if briefly, before our much more capable successors take the lead from us relics.