Can you imagine one of Heinlein’s “juvenile” stories where they need “approval” to land on the moon?
I was just thinking that. I’m re-reading The Man Who Sold the Moon right now, one of my favourite Heinleins though not really a juvenile one.
They should just go and do it!
Cheers,
Jim
I'm outraged by the need for approval. I just read this story here: Scentific American
The interagency approval process "took some time, not because anybody was against or averse to this," he said. "It's just that we asked questions that had never been asked before, and that had to be addressed and worked out."
Here's a question that seems to have never been asked before: how is it any of the government's f*ing business if a private entity goes into space?
Does the government own it all? The entire solar system? The entire galaxy? All the galaxies? The entire universe? The multiverse?
The government is the default owner of all creation?