But, for a man who touts himself as a science president, the cutting of funding for moon travel based on the assumption that we no longer need to go to the moon is extremely short-sighted, for the reasons I gave above. Maybe Obama is just under too much stress to see the benefits of continued space travel, so I'll give him that. (At least Congress still supports the Constellation program.) Another problem I have with the privatization of space travel is that it will, as I said above, just turn into competition for contracts from NASA. Private companies are extremely short sighted and for the most part, only care about immediate gains. Studying Titan and Europa is not going to turn any immediate profit at all, so they most likely will not care about the benefits of exploring those moons as much as an astronomer would. To put space travel and space exploration in the hands of private companies is to put our entire future in doubt, as it most likely will take away from advancements in space colonization, which may turn into a likely contingency plan, given our continued exploitation of our finite natural
But, for a man who touts himself as a science president, the cutting of funding for moon travel based on the assumption that we no longer need to go to the moon is extremely short-sighted, for the reasons I gave above. Maybe Obama is just under too much stress to see the benefits of continued space travel, so I'll give him that. (At least Congress still supports the Constellation program.) Another problem I have with the privatization of space travel is that it will, as I said above, just turn into competition for contracts from NASA. Private companies are extremely short sighted and for the most part, only care about immediate gains. Studying Titan and Europa is not going to turn any immediate profit at all, so they most likely will not care about the benefits of exploring those moons as much as an astronomer would. To put space travel and space exploration in the hands of private companies is to put our entire future in doubt, as it most likely will take away from advancements in space colonization, which may turn into a likely contingency plan, given our continued exploitation of our finite natural