[DoughtyOne]

I sure hope this proposal doesn't fly. NASA has been nothing much more than a rat-hole for the last thirty-five years. Yep, that's where the money went. What do we have to show for it?

Take a look at the space station. It's $100 billion dollars worth of lodging for 1 to 3 people at the present. We have no means of putting others up there, servicing the project or completing it. We paid 80% of the cost, then proclaimed it an international space station.

If this is any clue to what NASA's plans are for space habitation, moon, mars et al, count me out.

NASA has been a catastrophic failure.

[RightWhale]

The only valid reason to send humans into space is to claim ore bodies for the country and then allow for private rights to be established.