Top Ten 21st Century Reasons to Go Back
to
the Moon … on to Mars
… and Beyond
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By Richard C. Hoagland
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To give our kids new Hope, careers and Dreams -- beyond merely surviving in a world of growing terrorism, more “police state” responses, with increasing resource and energy scarcity ultimately leading to endless global wars
To finally shift Mankind’s perspectives from “us against them,” to “we’re all one human Family,” with a resultant dramatic lessening of Conflict -- by finding actual evidence of extraterrestrial life to compare ourselves against … be it “merely” microbes, or even something more …
By finally opening up unlimited solar system resources -- be it exotic fuels, new planetary minerals or endless solar energy – dramatically alter the “have not” competition between the First and Third Worlds here on Earth … the ultimate source of increasing global terrorism
By setting sufficiently high goals – permanent human occupation
of the Moon, then on to Mars – maintain the leadership role of the
By greatly accelerating these radical technologies -- from “black” energy systems and propulsion to autonomous robotics, from desktop “super computers” to their ultra-broad band communications (essential to conducting “routine operations” on the Moon and Beyond) – dramatically accelerate overall national and global productivity, with startling increases in GNP and GWP
By federally subsidizing the creation of a whole new generation of consumer industries -- through pioneering a literal “Second age of Space” -- dramatically increase the historical “return on investment” from past NASA spending … from 23 to one to more than 100-to-one; thus, for every billion dollars invested in this New Space Program, over a hundred billion will return to the national and world economy
By creating a global generation of “rich” humans, without adverse
environmental consequences, peacefully reduce the growing pressures of
global population – as historical data from the
By finally providing accessible new sources of raw materials and energy “off planet,” processed in lunar and orbital industrial facilities, naturally reverse over a century of planetary degradation and pollution … including global warming
By accelerating fundamental solar system exploration with human beings, return equally fundamental, radical scientific information – ranging from comparative planetary data which will assist preservation of the Earth’s environment through new space installations, to answers to the origin of the human race itself
By physically exploring our own solar system from a position of
unimagined wealth and capability, someday answer the most haunting question of
them all: are we the only intelligent species ever to have lived under this Sun
… or, did someone come Before?