This post is a few days old, but I didn’t link it at the time. I think that Keith is right. It’s largely been a failure, and will probably continue to be. We have to make it profitable.
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This post is a few days old, but I didn’t link it at the time. I think that Keith is right. It’s largely been a failure, and will probably continue to be. We have to make it profitable.
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Keith is right in one very important respect. Telling people about how you are going to space is not the answer. Getting tools in the hands of people so they can go to space is the answer. Let people experience it first hand by participating in Space projects, building CubeSats (or PocketCubes) or actually flying in space. Make it tangible.
I agree with Joe. For a fraction of what is being wasted on SLS, small robotic rovers could be put on the moon that could be tele-robotically controlled from Earth. Put in the hands of middle-schoolers across the country it would raise space awareness in ways not seen since Apollo. You know what? Bigger than Apollo. In ways not seen since Estes. It’s called investment. That will be the generation that figures out how to make it profitable….
Sadly, I agree with it and I was a part of it. There’s a lack of imagination in it, and a lack of awareness of a lack of imagination. And I wasn’t able to sell anything better, and none of the ideas I had were that good, anyway.
Lost? Hell no. We won, all of us, in 2004. Nobody laughs anymore when talking about private space companies. Nobody laughed at Planetary Resources when they talked about assaying asteroids. People talk about Elon Musk as if he’s Iron Man.