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This is why people who favor commercial do not favor an immediate return to the moon. It is simply too costly for anyone other than the government and will be so for far longer than LEO. Heck lunar spaceflight is too costly for government as the US cancelled Apollo and the USSR gave up on its lunar ambitions.
NASA long ago stopped being the Kennedy-era "let's be explorers!" organization, and has basically become a "let's research how to arm space" organization–as illustrated by the description of the so-called return to the moon program:
"A new vision of U.S. space leadership that will call for use of the Moon for technology development and partnerships between NASA and the Defense Department to make maximum use of existing or planned U.S. space systems."
NASA long ago stopped being the Kennedy-era "let's be explorers!" organization, and has basically become a "let's research how to arm space" organization–as illustrated by the description of the so-called return to the moon program:
"A new vision of U.S. space leadership that will call for use of the Moon for technology development and partnerships between NASA and the Defense Department to make maximum use of existing or planned U.S. space systems."
While cutting wasteful spending in a government dept whose existence is completely unnecessary may be a good thing, I seriously doubt that his intentions were ever truly about fiscal accountability. My prediction is that the money allocated to the "Return to the Moon" project will simply be diverted to Resident Obongo's new pet project entitled "Return to Africa," presented by celebrated black liberation "theologist" Rev. Wright to placate all of his most steadfast and hopelessly blind supporters: black militant supremacists. But instead of actually returning to the African continent itself (which would most preferable), they are simply going to turn all of America into another Zimbabwe and bring Africa to us…LMFAO!
What a great moment in human history this was and still is. I was born to late to see this, but learning about an accomplishment of this magnitude makes me a little misty eyed at what we can accomplish as human beings if we really put our collective minds to it. Human beings are fantastic beings and it's sad that we forget that at times.
The thing that saddens me the most is that we have not spent the years between the last moon landing and today going back. I know that it's not the cheapest thing in the world, but there is so much to gain for it. I look forward to our return to the moon and guarantee I will be glued to the television the day we return. Can you imagine the images that we will get using the visual technologies that are available then?
I will grant he didn’t put the moon on the critical path, per se, but nothing he did rules out a return to the moon (particularly if we had embraced the 2011 budget – the further we get from that, the further away a lunar mission is). True, we weren’t going there with Constellation, but that was never gonna happen