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Damn those guys at NASA are sure impressive. This is only about 35 years late. Now I'm supposed to get all excited about them doing what we should have been doing in 1970? NASA, drop dead.

If a corporation was spending their budget we would have an outpost at Jupiter by now.... we just couldn't touch Europa.....

5 posted on 03/01/2004 7:45:50 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)

DoughtyOne wrote: "NASA, drop dead."

Dude, Nasa didn't cut its own funding. Congress did. And besides there could never have been a mass exodus off the planet after a few years of traipsing around cislunar space. Apollo will pale in comparison to the complexity and scale of the project that we are now beginning. We weren't ready for that in 1972. I hate to use this tired analogy, but Lewis and Clark were not immediately followed by the people on the Oregon Trail. That happened 150 years later. Why have we expected different from space?