If, like me, you’ve been confused by NASA’s constantly shifting plans for a space station, this brief article will clear up the fog. Those of us who grew up wanting to see a sustained and logical program of space exploration, not for immediate political and social motives, but for the long-term benefit of the human race, have always experienced some frustration with NASA. It’s as if we were genuinely religious people who discovered that their church was more interested in promoting bingo and church bazaars than in serving god. Tim’s paper provides many details that explain why manned space exploration has had such a lurching, unsatisfactory progress. Unmanned space exploration, by comparison, has a history of relatively smooth, logical progression. Hopefully, Tim will write another paper to explain why this is so.
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