To: BenLurkin
Amazing how much SpaceX and now Boeing has accomplished with their out of box thinking. With all the great accomplishments of NASA, they're looking kinda sad now. We really needed a helicopter on Mars with so many rovers?
Commercial space exploration and consumer flights are the future.
3 posted on
05/22/2021 12:11:31 PM PDT by
A Navy Vet
(USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
To: A Navy Vet
Blame 40 layers of bureaucracy and government oversight for that. By the time a project gets approved (congress gets theirs) and funded (congress gets more) the idea is a decade behind civilian projects.
6 posted on
05/22/2021 12:30:37 PM PDT by
Semper Vigilantis
(The defeat from within has begun.)
To: A Navy Vet
Commercial mining on the moon is the near future.
There are REMs there in quantities higher than on earth. There are resources there for rocket fuel that make it the perfect stopping off point to refuel for Mars and the Asteroids.
Lunar factories are only decades away—not centuries.
8 posted on
05/22/2021 12:49:40 PM PDT by
Vermont Lt
(. )
To: A Navy Vet
the mars copter is a tech demo only, as for Boeing, they screwed up with the starliner failure yo reach the iss, and have to do the demo again on their dime.
14 posted on
05/23/2021 5:33:42 PM PDT by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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