[Brett66]

Americans will set foot on the moon again once private companies decide to go there for tourism or mining. NASA won't ever go back, they're busy building a space station and proving their incompetemce in managing large projects. Though they have had stunning success in proving their incompetence already, I'm willing to bet they have even more profound incompetence to demonstrate. It's up to private enterprise to get us back there and begin industrialization/colonization.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's up to private enterprise to get us back there and begin industrialization/colonization.

It's time to wake up and see that this is a national security risk and we have no more time to waste.

Pentagon Report Calls for the United States Control of Space---Arguably, one of the more straightforward parts of the QDR concerns the capability and survivability of space systems. "Because many activities conducted in space are critical to America's national security and economic well being, the ability of the United States to access and utilize space is a vital national security interest," the QDR says. "During crisis or conflict, potential adversaries may target U.S., allied, and commercial space assets as an asymmetric means of countering or reducing U.S. military operational effectiveness, intelligence capabilities, economic and societal stability, and national will."