[Movemout]

"the fact remains that the Chinese are devoting resources and gearing up to do something that we are no longer technologically capable of achieving in the immediate future."

I like Bob Walker but this is a disingenous statement. We can establish a lunar campsite within five years, technologically speaking. Mr Walker knows this. What we lack is the political will and commitment to do it.

You are absolutely dead on in your allegation that we need a framework in which to move forward. This lack, more than anything, has contributed to NASA's aimless drifting for three decades.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I believe he means, most Americans believe we could go to the Moon tomorrow if NASA was given the green light.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

What we lack is the political will and commitment to do it.

What will it take? A few of our comsats "disappearing?"