CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
The price tag for new rockets to return astronauts to the moon is $104 billion, a cost the nation can afford over the next decade despite the expense of Hurricane Katrina, NASA's chief said Monday.
Described as "Apollo on steroids," the new moon exploration plan unveiled by the space agency will use beefed-up shuttle and Apollo parts and aims to put people on the moon by 2018.
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This seems odd, strange... Why has it taken, or will take, nearly 50 years to return to the moon? Why is NASA reusing old parts? If we went to the moon, why have we not gone back? Where is the exploration? Where are the moon bases? Why have the Russians never gone to the moon? Or the Chinese?
It doesn't make alot of sense. When Columbus discovered the New World, colonies formed shortly thereafter. Granted, the moon's hostile conditions and distance from Big Blue make colonizing a challenge, however those obstacles have never stopped man in the past.
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