To: mrreaganaut
We had the technology to hoist a 1,000 ton habitat to the moon 60 years ago, but lacked the vision and will. Had Project Orion been pursued, we’d already be on the moon, Mars, and the Jovian system.
7 posted on
10/26/2010 11:13:05 AM PDT by
RJR_fan
(Christians need to reclaim and excel in the genre of science fiction.)
To: RJR_fan
but lacked the vision and willThis would be the same vision and will that 0 and his fellow Democrats showed in passin the "stimulus bill" and 0bama care? Except for something even more worthless.
11 posted on
10/26/2010 11:22:35 AM PDT by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
To: RJR_fan
"Had Project Orion been pursued, ..."
Those days are over. Now NASA is busy trying to get muslims to feel good about themselves. We have no launch vehicles, we are squandering our know how, but when NASA is done, muslims will feel good about their efforts in space!
But humans will explore:

12 posted on
10/26/2010 11:24:24 AM PDT by
brownsfan
(D - swift death of the republic, R - lingering death for the republic.)
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