It's illogical to do it with technology that requires $5grand in capital to put a postage stamp in orbit.
Rockets will put a man on the moon, but we need new technology for all the things in space that will REALLY help us...colonization industry raw materials...figure out how to get a truckload of goods into orbit for the price it takes to ship it coast to coast, and we'll have it ALL.
If you've seen me post similar sentiments before, forgive me...it's a pet issue of mine I guess. I do think Newt has his goals in the right direction, but like the rest of America, if you don't build the infrastructure first you don't have the building blocks for the big ideas.
"Ma'am, could you pass me the 'help wanted' section?"
"On-world, or Off-world?" ;^)
Arguing about Human Space Exploration......................."Repeating what we did 40 years ago is not the reason for lunar return, although, I understand the confusion. Here was a great missed opportunity for the Committee – they could have pointed out that NASA flubbed the implementation of its lunar mission from the beginning, largely because the agency never really grasped the rationale behind going to the Moon, thereby leaving others unable to embrace or articulate the mission. Perhaps the Committee didn’t point this out because they didn’t understand it either. Or perhaps because so much money has already disappeared down the black hole of Ares development, it was deemed easier to frame the report in the familiar terms of hardware procurement rather than focus on the objectives of the mission."..........