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Originally posted by wellard:
Thanks for posting the story Chewy, I was going to but never got round to it.
Why is the space station getting the funding at the expense of Hubble? I really do not see much future in manned space flight. Maybe some expert can tell me what benifit the space station (new) is providing?
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Perhaps in the future we may be able to use it for Industrial purposes. It would be far easier to launch an exploration ship into the universe from. Also, had you not considered that the Moon could some day be mined? If there were eventually a manned colony on the Moon, mining the ore required to build spacecraft out there, it would solve most of the problems associated with launching a vehicle from Earth. Gravity being the biggest problem would simply fade into the background.
Having said all that though, the amounts of money we are talking about is simply obscene condsidering the poverty in the world. It's a funny old world, that's for sure.