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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by WOOKIE_pizza on Saturday August 12, 2017 @11:48PM (#15001378)
Good points on both sides of the debate. Why not do both? Imagine the "we" is really 7.4 billion people (~195 countries) so it would seem that surely we could support each others' efforts to reach both destinations. What an achievement for humanity that would be!
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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by olivaw_daneel on Saturday August 12, 2017 @11:58PM (#15001405)
It's a nice sentiment, but if you pool all the money NASA devote to human spaceflight there's barely enough to maintain R&D for a Mars mission with landing in the next 15-20 years, any split in funding between Mars and a manned Moon program, you're seeing a Mars landing easily past 2050.

It's really a zero-sum game, unfortunately.

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Re:The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engin... by irishasaurus on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:13AM (#15001439)
I believe WOOKIE_pizza was referencing an international effort.
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