I'm less worried about waiting to come up with some grand new idea.
I'm more interested in getting moving on getting back to the moon.
We're already way behind thanks to the shuttle folly.
I'm more interested in getting moving on getting back to the moon.
Well we're all familiar with what happens when we get impatient and demand that the government just do something and hand them a blank check. We learned the wrong lesson with the Apollo program. Remember it was in the age of President Johnson's "Great Society" where big government programs were supposed to solve all of societies ills.
Had we turned the engines of capitalism loose on space in the 1970s (or even later in the 1980s or even the 1090s), we would be routinely be flying back and forth into space at a fraction of the current cost doing things we can't even imagine, just because it was much more accessible to more varied players.
The shuttle was only one in many missteps in space development over the last 30 or so years.