Built on Facts

There’s not many people who love space exploration more than me. And I’m not one of these scientists who wants to scrap manned spaceflight to divert the budget to cheaper and much more scientifically useful unmanned probes. Human exploration of space is both a necessity for the future and a noble endeavor purely for its own sake. But it’s hard not to argue that our current effort at manned spaceflight has not produced very much progress for the money in the last few decades.

When the biggest story in manned spaceflight in many months is a broken toilet, you start to wish perhaps NASA would scrap the shuttle and ISS entirely. Maybe redirect the funds into R&D for future manned systems. It’s time to quit flushing money down the… well, maybe I should end this before the pun police arrest me.