[Young Werther]

Mine the Helium 3 on the moon and use it to fuel fusion generators. The fusion genrators generate electricity which is beamed to earth. No pollution plenty of electricity and a giant motiviation for our kids to study math and science and engineering. They would colonize the moon and use its resources to benefit all mankind.

Dr Gerald O'Neill who formulated these plans as a Physics Professor at Princeton along with Werhner von Braun knew that the space program could be self funding and provide a profit to boot.

The return on investment, (ROI) for the average company is 10 to 15%. The ROI on the Apollo Program is closer to 700%. Own a computer? Owne a satelite TV receiver? Own a cell phone? Own a GPS receiver? All came from Apollo era inventions and created millions of jobs and incresed our GDP significantly.

Go Into Space? You Betcha!!!!!!

[Soul Citizen]

2020 Is a Go. In 4 years we will have a new CEO to lead us to scientific prosperity.

[londonfog]

Helium?? I live out here on a sea of helium. The government shut it down because we don’t do Blimps anymore but you want helium , just go to the Texas Panhandle. With all due respect , the Flash Gordon stuff is a pipe dream. The only thing we actually got out of the space program (don’t give me that computer lie) was Tang and nobody drinks it anymore.

[Centurion2000]

The fusion genrators generate electricity which is beamed to earth.

Pass on that one bud. Whoever controls that effectively controls a gigawatt to terawatt maser cannon.

Besides .... just ship the He3 back to earth (mass driver and iron reentry shell) and build the reactors here.

[londonfog]

Helium?? I live out here on a sea of helium. The government shut it down because we don’t do Blimps anymore but you want helium , just go to the Texas Panhandle. With all due respect , the Flash Gordon stuff is a pipe dream. The only thing we actually got out of the space program (don’t give me that computer lie) was Tang and nobody drinks it anymore.