Não podia estar mais de acordo (ver as referências ao fim sobre notas deste blogue sobre o assunto) com a tese do faseamento a dar à exploração (humana) do espaço de que se dá notícia na nota seguinte da Centauri Dreams:
"Interesting to see that the recent debate in the pages of The Economist on whether or not we should return to the Moon has reference to the outer Solar System. The debate pits Gregg Maryniak (James S. McDonnell Planetarium, St. Louis) against Mike Gold (Bigelow Aerospace). Normally the Moon is off our agenda in these pages because of our focus on the outer system and beyond, but my friend Frank Taylor noticed that among Maryniak’s arguments for a return to the Moon was its utility as a staging point.
Specifically, Maryniak argues that in addition to its other uses, the Moon lets us get our ’space legs’ by learning about shielding human crews and ‘living off the land’ in a deeply inhospitable place. All of this may well lead to lunar power stations or the collection of Helium-3 for fusion projects, a developing technology with profound implications (ver aqui e aqui).
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