Hitching a Ride to Mars: The Case for Space Exploration

[riky]

Hitching a Ride to Mars: The Case for Space Exploration
      

When I was a boy I just assumed that the natural progress of science and technology would include the exploration of space and that by the time I was, say, 63, there would be human colonies on the Moon and Mars at least, and of course a bustling orbital space station very like the one in the movie "2001." (Actually, it was far easier to imagine what space travel would be like than what being 63 would be like.)

There are those who need a good, solid reason to support space exploration. There are even those who deny that any such reason could possibly exist. I don't understand such folk ...
         

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