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The US needs to get serious about space exploration. How about the space elevator idea? Why not start researching materials that could make it a reality? Just imagine the spinoffs that would be applied to buildings and vehicles right here on Earth. After we have a practical way to get materials into space cheaply, then let's start building a real spacecraft, one built in space and not designed to make planet fall, perhaps in the form of a wheel that could be spun to create artificial gravity. I'm not talking about a puny vehicle such as ply the Earth's tiny oceans, but a space craft that is measured in kilometers.
Why not? Who thought we would land men on the moon in 12 years back in '57 when the Soviets put the first man made object into space?
Why not? Who thought we would land men on the moon in 12 years back in '57 when the Soviets put the first man made object into space?