From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 09:36:02 MST
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Greg Burch wrote:
> With all that said, I still can't help but emotionally buy in to the "if
> you build it, they will come" mentality that has kept Freedom/ISS/Alpha
> going for 20+ years. As expensive and "missionless" as ISS/Alpha is
> now, it *is there* and will continue to grow through sheer momentum over
> the next few years [snip]
It is worth noting that the NASA Exploration Team does have a plan to
go beyond the ISS to the Earth-Moon LaGrange point.
See: http://www.space.com/news/beyond_iss_020926-1.html
The ISS functions as a steping stone technologically to go further.
Robert
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