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Originally Posted by casstony
Given the extreme economic/financial stress the USA is under at the moment, I think we'll be lucky to see even a minimal space program in the coming decade. When voters are worried about putting food on the table the last thing they care about is walking on the moon.
A combination of low taxes and high expenditure has ruined State and Federal budgets, conspiracy between politicians and big bankers is funnelling much needed taxes into a black hole (to prop up insolvent companies and pay bonuses to banksters), and squabbling between Republicans and Democrats is preventing effective remedies from being implemented. The health and education systems are in shambles compared to ours and people are losing their jobs and houses.
Meanwhile the authorities use dodgy accounting to pretend things are improving, with a favoured tactic being to compare new raw figures to the previous months adjusted figure.
I can't see how there will be any US public funding of human space exploration for the forseeable future.
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Tony, it's just the same old rubbish being repeated over and over again. When will people wake up to the fact that these jokers we vote for (and the ones we don't vote for behind the scenes) are not fit to be in the positions they're in. The whole system is a farce.
Yep, they can't spend the money on the space program, or a better health system, decent education etc etc. However they'll spend a trillion dollars a year propping up puppet governments and unnecessary wars overseas, all for political and financial reasons.
I think the space program is going to be running very minimally for quite some time. Don't expect us to be back on the Moon (except maybe the Chinese...but even that's not a given) before 2030 and Mars...none of us alive now are ever going to see a permanent human presence there, and I doubt we'll be there before even most of us have retired. Not at the rate things are going at present.