Science Is Not About Consensus, And Consensus

We'll Go Back To The Moon By Not Learning Anything New.

There Was A Wonderful Little Short Four-year Time Period When Marvelous Things Happened. It Started In 1908, When The Wright Brothers Flew In Paris, And Everybody Said, 'ooh, Hey, I Can Do That.' There's Only A Few People That Have Flown In Early 1908. In Four Years, 39 Countries Had Hundreds Of Airplanes, Thousands Of Pilots.

Space Travel Is The Only Technology That Is More Dangerous And More Expensive Now Than It Was In Its First Year. Fifty Years After Yuri Gagarin, The Space Shuttle Ended Up Being More Dangerous And More Expensive To Fly Than Those First Throwaway Rockets, Even Though Large Portions Of It Were Reusable. It's Absurd.

Look At The Aerospace Industry As It Was Just After The Kennedy Talk. We Were Hiring Like Crazy. We Were Trying To Get People Graduated From College. Hey, You Got To Go To The Program. We Need You.

In The Coming Era Of Manned Space Exploration By The Private Sector, Market Forces Will Spur Development And Yield New, Low-cost Space Technologies. If The History Of Private Aviation Is Any Guide, Private Development Efforts Will Be Safer, Too.