Wednesday, March 31, 2004

NASA Isn’t the Answer

“If our civilisation is to make the leap from a one-planet to a multi-planet one, then, just as when it made the leap from a European to a global civilisation, the ultimate drivers will not be government programmes (of Prince Henry the Navigator, Ferdinand and Isabella, Kennedy and Khrushchev). Progress will rather depend upon commercial enterprises which serve public demand (the East India company, the Cunard line, the embryonic space tourist companies).”

From a letter written by Stephen Ashworth to Prospect magazine which takes issue with an Oliver Morton article in the magazine which explores spaceflight and the validity of NASA in that endeavor.

Morton’s article was linked via Samizdata where the letter quote was drawn from.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/31 at 06:10 AM
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