The Space Flight Prevention Agency continues to expensively deteriorate.
“So what we are doing is relying on commercial capability to get us access to low Earth orbit, to get us to the International Space Station.
“But to get to places like the moon and Mars and other beyond LEO places, that, we feel, is the responsibility of your government. Because that’s risky, that’s an investment that we can’t really count on a commercial entity taking until we’ve demonstrated the ability to do that and do it safely.”
Oh, just get the hell out of the way.
The funny thing is that the most risky part of the procedure is actually…blasting out of the gravity well on top of a slowly exploding pile of volatile chemicals. 😀
And of course they had to yammer about Mars. To [i]hell[/i] with Mars! The plan should be the vast treasure trove of near-earth asteroids that, coincidentally enough, also constitute the greatest threat to human civilization after that, y’know, huge bunch of nukes the government built. Just sitting there. Aging. When they could be dismantled and used for space exploration. There’s something utterly beautiful about the idea of using the biggest threat to mankind to tame and prosper from the second biggest threat to mankind.