re moonbase race nasa resources why in article r o inn j mojo eng umd edu sysmgr king eng umd edu doug mohney writes in article c teik z zoo toronto edu henry zoo toronto edu henry spencer writes apollo was done the hard way in a big hurry from a very limited technology base and on government contracts just doing it privately rather than as a government project cuts costs by a factor of several so how much would it cost as a private venture assuming you could talk the u s government into leasing you a couple of pads in florida software engineering that s like military intelligence isn t it sysmgr cadlab eng umd edu why must it be a us government space launch pad directly i mean i know of a few that could launch a small package into space not including ariadne and the russian sites i know poker flats here in alaska thou used to be only sounding rockets for auroral borealous sp and other northern atmospheric items is at last i heard being upgraded to be able to put sattelites into orbit why must people in the us be fixed on using nasas direct resources poker flats is runin part by nasa but also by the univesity of alaska and the geophysical institute sounds like typical us cultural centralism and protectionism and people wonder why we have the multi trillion dollar deficite sp yes i am working on a spell checker michael adams nsmca acad alaska edu i m not high just jacked
