> What future would he write? Or would you?

> A future based on what is likely to occur
> based on current facts and trends?
>
> Or a future NASA ..should...have in an
> otherwise perfect world?
>
> I know what I would write. It would be a future
> where NASA plays the central role in fulfilling
> the promise of space. Which I believe is taking
> the human race to the next level of understanding
> ability to survive, and prosperity.
>
> That NASA should become the vehicle for creating
> ...Truth and Justice...for the future of the entire planet
> and be an ever growing source of inspiration across
> space and time.
>
> ..............................................
>
> Would such a movie include a Space Program like this?
> Which President Bush canceled his first year in office?
>
> A program which conceivably could end our dependence
> on fossil fuels thus solving global warming. Perhaps the
> two largest global future threats?
>
> "NASA'S SPACE SOLAR POWER EXPLORATORY
> RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM (SERT)"
>
> While making America the next energy "Saudi Arabia"
> for the future?
>
> "The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space
> Solar Power (SSP)  Exploratory Research and Technology
> (SERT) program was charged to develop  technologies
> needed to provide cost-competitive ground baseload electrical
> power from space-based solar energy converters."http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10202&page=1
>
> Statement of John C. Mankins
> Manager, Advanced Concepts Studies
> Office of Space Flight
> September 7, 2000
>
> Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee,
>
> "NASA has examined the viability of large-scale space solar power
> (SSP) systems through a series of studies and preliminary technology
> research activities."
>
> "Very briefly, our results and findings to date can be summarized as follows:"
>
> "a.  Large-scale SSP is a very complex integrated system of systems that
>      requires numerous significant advances in current technology
>      and capabilities
>
>  b.   A technology roadmap has been developed that lays out potential paths
>        for achieving all needed advances"
>
> http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/legaff/mankins9-7.html
>
> I believe the goal of NASA should be to replace fossil fuels
> with Space Solar Power, and accomplish this before the
> oil runs out, or global warming becomes irreversible.
>
> Whichever comes first~
>
> Jonathan
>
> "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and
>     do the other things, not because they are easy, but
>    because they are hard, because that goal will serve
>      to organize and measure the best of our energies
>     and skills, because that challenge is one that we
>       are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to
>      postpone, and one which we intend to win..."
>
>                                                            -JFK
>
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