Someone talked the Gray Lady into publishing a boilerplate proposal to fix our space program–let’s go to the Moon! (registration required)

Yawn…

These pieces always assume that there’s nothing wrong with the way we’re doing space that a spiffy new goal won’t fix up. And of course, we should not only go to the Moon, but we should do it as an international venture. Sure, why not? After all, just look how well it worked out with the space station…

These people need to realize that, until we tackle and truly solve the problem of access to orbit, the rest of this is pipe dreams, and if we do solve it, we won’t have to argue about what we should be spending NASA’s money on, because we’ll be able to afford it ourselves.