Possible Moon Base

[eric]

[Boris Johnson]

Sorry, had to do it.

[Spider]

I think exploration is pretty much the best thing government has ever done.

Dept of Homeland Security...an agency that shouldn't even exist, has a budget 4 times larger than NASA's. So I'm really not worried about NASA spending.

[PoS]

My fav tv show as a very young kid, I think I was around 3-4:

[The Comrade]

the moon is the launching point for all further exploration. we need to be proactive in establishing something permanent there.

[WizardfromOz]

I dont see the Moon as a launching point - We really need a reason to go other than sheer curiosity. I would much rather see coin going into expanded Martian exploration

[Spider]

Ya, I've always kinda looked at the moon as just one more gravity well to waste fuel on escaping.

[WizardfromOz]

[eric]

I think the point is having a place where we can organize things in space, that's close to home relativistically. When you colonized the new world you didn't head straight for Nebraska. You started at the coast.

[Spider]

Thing is though that it isn't "in space". A moon base would be on the ground.

Better to set a large space station up out at L5 if we want a deep space jumping off point.