More Space Talk

A chap from Space.com suggests that getting to the moon again, setting up a base there, and proceeding to Mars need not carry tremendous cost with it (link via Instapundit). All we'd have to do is ditch the shuttle program and the International Space Station. After Columbia, the former won't be to hard a sell. The shuttle program has always had a certain feckless quality to it. But the ISS is, well, international, and that makes it a political footbal for them as would want to accuse the president of "space unilateralism" (I can just see Maureen Dowd's column on the subject. Prepare for "phallic rocket" flippancies).


He even brings up the value of collecting solar energy on the Moon and "beaming" it too earth. I blogged this back in November, when the idea was first broached by Dr. David Criswell. I thought it was an idea worth exploring. Mayhaps Dubya does, too.


Oh, and the Russians think it's a swell idea.