There’s a lot of lively discussion over at Space Politics over NASA’s budget crunch and its implications for ESAS. I would note that it’s getting harder and harder to find defenders of Ares 1.

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Here’s another lively thread:

If NASA was somehow developing the technologies to enable very-low-cost human spaceflight, with advanced life support systems, in-situ resource utilization, and advanced propulsion systems, then maybe I could get behind the idea of a gov