[quote]Originally posted by Pliedes:
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[qb]Fruit, when you drive to school, do you stop halfway and get in another car? No? Then why would we stop at the space station on the way to the moon? We already have developed methods to get there, remember, we've already been there a bunch of times.
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Not the case at all, Pliedes. I don't stop halfway to get in another car, but I wouldn't buy a car with a bigger gas tank, when I could just as easily refuel while on my way there with the car I already have.
Yes, we have been there a bunch of times. So why is it going to take another eleven years for us to go there again if it was so easy to go there "a bunch of times" before? I remember asking a similar question to Mr. McClintock at Jefferson back in the day, and for those of you that know him, he knows his shit when it comes to NASA and space exploration. He replied with, "Because we forgot how." I don't know what he really based that off of, but I've been under that impression for some time now.