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Old 02-May-2006, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by NEOWatcher
You don't think there's more to it? Bush just woke up one day and said "what should I do today? I know, let's go to the moon."
(I know some may think that, but I'd like to think the decision was based on something)
I do. I don't understand the chemistry (nucleogy?) but some friends tell me it was so that in 20 years we'd have a supply of He3 for fusion.

People have tried explanating it, but supposedly fusion using He3 is more obtainable? I think they mean viable energy production using fusion better with He3 than D and T.
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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.
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