Why is space travel being ignored?

Since B.C. times, people have wanted to explore, People wanted to discover the earth and they did, people went to the poles, discovered the ocean, because they wanted to know. Then in the 60s, the we went to the moon, at the speed we were then, we could be on mars by 2000. Then, space died... Ever since the 70s, no one seems to care. What happened to wanting to know whats out there? Space is the final frontier, space is right above our heads......

Just think about it, if NASA had continued being supported, think how much farther we would be right now, I mean we wouldn't be out of our solar system, but maybe an outpost on mars? Probably a decent colony on the moon?

It bugs me how people just don't care, it bugs me that I was born in this period of time, because nothing important is going on in the space frontier. I really want to focus part of my life on exploring space, but I don't think thats going to happen at this rate.

NASA at best won't land on the moon again until 2030 in my opinion, I think our only chance is for private corporations.

Do you think the final frontier is being ignored?

 

1. We don't care enough to put billions into useless research then billions more to cover it up
2. There are over a billion people living on a dollar a day, maybe we should do something about them first
3. All this bullshit about our economy failing is getting people scared, therefore it is actually going to fail.

How about you start the private corporation as nobody wants to see you walking on a rock and they sure as hell won't pay billions to see it.

 

I'm guessing you haven't noticed the economy these days. Lots of people are loosing their jobs while you say we should spend billions a day maybe trillions just to go to space?

 

well first of all our economy everyone losing there jobs and houses space travel would be a waste right now when we could help people with those billions

 

The economy is just slumped down =( there are not that much much that can be put towards it anymore, but they are still getting billions in funding its not like their broke or something. And space exploration isnt ignored, probes are still sent to take pictures of all the planets in our solar system and the dwarf planets that revolve around our sun that's beyond Pluto.

 

I wonder how America would act to the government dumping billions of dollars into space travel? Oh wait, nevermind, they would go insane. At this point int time, due to our economic position, money can be spent more efficiently. You can't go pumping money into space exploration when it's not an absolute necessity.

 

Ok guys, I'm seriously tired of EVERYONE repeating the same damn shit. I rarly report, but this is retarded.


The economy isn't bad, people only think it is. The main problem is job loss, any other such as prices/inflation can be solved later.


Space travel should be decreased for a while. But not stopped. It still holds many jobs which we do not need to be lost.

 

aside from all these @$$H0l3s who go on about the economy im with you. i mean ive always wanted space and beyond to be a big part of my life up until i was about 12 when i realised that were i am (new zealand) and what school i was at etc. that there was an absolute 0% chance of that happening unless aliens invaded and there was a galactical war. ive always wanted that to happen. have a galactical war but hey it probably wont. but yea i wouldve thought we might have an outpost on mars by now. lets hope the future will hold more for us. i mean there wasnt exactly a "depression" as some people use the excuse between 1990-2007 that i know of. and if there was and someone can prove this then ill eat my face.

 

You obviously have no idea how much money it takes to launch a single rocket, let alone build an off-world base.

 

how about you just go away. yes i do know im not stupid and jump to conclusions about people unlike someone....

 

If you know how much money is required to launch a single rocket, then why are you complaining about us not having bases on Mars and so on? Money is only the first issue. The second issue is the technology we have at the present: it would be near impossible to build an off-world base anyway.

I'm thinking things through logically - unlike someone.

 

It shouldn't be anywhere close to the top priorities aside from the economy the benefits of space travel don't outweigh the actual costs/time/effort.

 

The main reason they went to the moon was because they wanted to show off to Russia.
also there are a lot of Unmanned Missions to Mars and other areas...So its not like they are doing nothing.
Besides its cheaper and less risky to send unmanned rockets.

Funny thing is that it happens...

 

For my first point-I'll update later-

There is absolutely no point in space travel anymore. Honestly, the first few times was to prove it works and to take some samples. But think about it. We have unmanned drones getting us samples from other planets like Mars. I think-I know i'm not right-the furthest we've gone is Mars? And, we can't travel at the speed of light, so getting anywhere significant would be impossible. We don't have the technology to make space-travel worth our time. It's a slow process, and we only get what we can already get with unmanned crafts.

Trust me, when we find a way to go to much faster/the speed of light, space travel will pick up again. But until then, there really isn't a good reason to put lives in danger for something a drone can do.

 

most people don't have the education for those kind of jobs.

 

To all the stuff on the economy- Think 1990s, we were doing great, all we really did then was small missions to build a space station, I think the INSS is a good investment, but it's not really getting us anywhere besides a couple of experiments.



On the military side, I bet the U.S. military AT LEAST has a couple of "spacecraft" that can launch from land and go right up to space, low space.

I don't think we're ready for Mars, but the moon is a great place to start.

 

Whats the point.

Well yess the earth's trees, fish, animals, and nature il failining but it was bound to happen the way humans are going. but eevry other planet doesnt have what it needs to support human life right, also money is a problem, just not enough cash to send several rockets shooting into space, yes rockets go up occasionally but the price is a lot, plus we shoudl look to make economy atleast a little better befor we start blasting into space for no real good reason?

 

Interesting when you think about it, but yeah there are just too many problems going on such as homeless and hungry people but then again maybe in space we could discover something that would help us out?

 

It isn't.

We're already exploring mars, there's no point of even attempting to send a man to mars without exploring it first.

Also, a colony on the moon.

Think about it, how much of earth's population can physically survive in space.

"Lets train people over a few years"

Sure, we get some specially trained people, so they can go to the moon. Spend most of their day excersing, billions of dollars on supplies, and lots of risks, so we can see a few people camp on rocks. All it would do is start conspiracies " They are aliens!" "Secret testing" "They don't know people live on earth" stupid things like that from people have too much time. "The economy crisis" isn't an excuse though.

So yea, we are exploring mars with the phoenix project. There's absoloutely NO point in going to the moon again though. The U.S. basically did it to beat the soviet union..

 

NO point to go the moon? Stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ok, launching rockets cost billions because it takes a TON of fuel to leave the earth, the moon has 1/6 the gravity and no atmosphere. It would me at least 10 X cheaper to launch from the moon. The moon could also have valuable deposits of rock, ect. Telescopes on the moon could see out much farther because there is no atmosphere. The moon is a great place to go.