I don't know understand how someone with a little logic can accept the suggestion that moon travel is the only technological advancement in the history of man kind that has been abandoned.
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How We'll Get Back to the Moon
Before the end of the next decade, NASA astronauts will again explore the surface of the moon. And this time, we're going to stay, building outposts and paving the way for eventual journeys to Mars and beyond. There are echoes of the iconic images of the past, but it won't be your grandfather's moon shot.
With a minimum of two lunar missions per year, momentum will build quickly toward a permanent outpost. Crews will stay longer and learn to exploit the moon's resources, while landers make one way trips to deliver cargo. Eventually, the new system could rotate crews to and from a lunar outpost every six months.
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Before the end of the next decade? Thats 2020. Does this sound like something that had already been done in the 1960's?
Seriously..
Uhh yeah, we've already been to mars in the 1960's but we can't go back until after 2020. Perfect logic.