It's not a race, we'll get there eventually. Manned space exploration is horrendously expensive, and we as a country have decided to spend our tax dollars on other things. When we stop killing each other as a species, we can spend a lot less on the military, and space exploration will accellerate. You tell me when that will happen. Sure, I'm disappointed that I won't be retiring on the moon or Mars, or vacationing on the orbiting Hilton, or taking a cruise to the moons of Saturn, but our descendants surely will. I'm good with that. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
It's worse than sad. It's a giant betrayal of all the brave people who worked so hard, and those who died, to achieve the landings. In a way, I feel it's a betrayal of our species.