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**astonmartinrx371** · 07-18-2009, 07:43 AM

It's a shame. I'd love to say that my parents generation were the ones that took the inspiration and ran with it and continued on with space exploration, but sadly, that's not the case. They've had what, 40 years to act on the same dreams that the grew up with and done nothing.

I only hope that mine can do better.

There was only so much they could learn from moon rocks, so NASA turned its attention to orbital work. We now have weather satillites, a Global Positioning System, etc.

Still, a moon based would be nice. Or an L-5 base. Or a base on one of Mars's moons. Or a mining base in the asteroids. Something. We need to go boldly where none have gone before.

07-18-2009, 07:43 AM	#3
astonmartinrx371 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 628 Senior Member	It's a shame. I'd love to say that my parents generation were the ones that took the inspiration and ran with it and continued on with space exploration, but sadly, that's not the case. They've had what, 40 years to act on the same dreams that the grew up with and done nothing. I only hope that mine can do better. There was only so much they could learn from moon rocks, so NASA turned its attention to orbital work. We now have weather satillites, a Global Positioning System, etc. Still, a moon based would be nice. Or an L-5 base. Or a base on one of Mars's moons. Or a mining base in the asteroids. Something. We need to go boldly where none have gone before.
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