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I love the romance and intrigue of Space. I'm planning on going to Walt Disney World durring the opening of Mission:Space. My opinion about the space progaram is as follows: Space is going to be the final destination. We need to find out more. Spin-offs from the program have created new technologies that are indespensible to lots of people. Many space grade materials are helping save lives and reduce prices of goods.
Now to the next human spaceflight: Go for using the current Shuttles FOR NOW. But get Boeing to start to develop new long range, high capacity, almost 100% resuable space plane. Something that can launch using little fuel and then land safely. My ideas: compressed air. If you've been on Hypersonic XLC you know in 1.8 seconds the 3 ton train can go 80 mph. If you compress it enough, you can get something in space, then you can use boosters to excellerate the plane into space.
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