[who_would_fardels_bear]

The ISS continues to show us that outerspace is a horrible place for humans, and that microgravity has not yet proven to be useful enough in manufacturing to offset the cost of putting factories in space.

We should be spending all of NASA's budget on telescopes and probes.

When and if we discover some safe, inexpensive, and reasonably inexhaustible form of energy then we can think about putting humans safely into space, e.g. large rotating cylinders clad in magnetic fields or sufficient amounts of matter to provide simulated gravity and protection from cosmic rays.

[BobL]

“We should be spending all of NASA’s budget on telescopes and probes.”

Agree, let’s spend it on the Homeless (since that’s the only place the money will go, given our uniparty Congress).

[Vermont Lt]

The moon has supplies of H3, which I’ve read would be useable as rocket fuel. This would make the moon the gas station for flights around the solar system.

[citizen]

who = old man railing at clouds.