Ah yes. Nothing like a little gross oversimplification to generate headlines.
If the shuttle didn’t exist, there are still a thousand things that would have had to go in a different direction to get a viable Mars program in the 80s and 90s. Not the least of which being that without the shuttle, and before the ISS, we would have no CLUE how to actually live in space for long periods of time.
So if we take it that we can’t go to Mars without learning how to live in space for extended durations. And we take it that in order to learn how to live in space we need to have a long duration presence there, like the ISS.
What exactly do people think was necessary to build the ISS…
You’re right boys and girls…it was the SPACE SHUTTLE.
Ah yes. Nothing like a little gross oversimplification to generate headlines.
If the shuttle didn’t exist, there are still a thousand things that would have had to go in a different direction to get a viable Mars program in the 80s and 90s. Not the least of which being that without the shuttle, and before the ISS, we would have no CLUE how to actually live in space for long periods of time.
So if we take it that we can’t go to Mars without learning how to live in space for extended durations. And we take it that in order to learn how to live in space we need to have a long duration presence there, like the ISS.
What exactly do people think was necessary to build the ISS…
You’re right boys and girls…it was the SPACE SHUTTLE.