| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (RightThinker,)
What does any NASA computer guy have to gain? Or any other non-administrative member of the NASA team.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Well said.
But the moon is a great resource: shallow gravity well, lots of free solar energy, nobody has to pay anybody for the raw materials.
The only reason for lack of continuity on a moon program was the cost/benefit ratio.
There are entities that could round up the funding, gather the expertise and likely make it a paying proposition. But without Big Brother's oversight, the US would almost certainly consider these endeavors a threat.
From a Constitution Party standpoint the space program needs limits for anything above national defense needs or other specific powers delegated to the Feds by the states (See the Tenth Amendment)
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