Using rockets for big payloads is never going to be easy imho.


The people with the money need to start taking alternative methods of space travel seriously. Space elevators shouldn't been seen as just some wacky science fiction. There should be a high budget mission to try out solar sails (I believe the failure of Cosmos 1 will come to be seen as a significant setback for our exploration of space).

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"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive." - Carl Sagan, 1995