Reply #55: Me too. Painful as it is I gotta agree with Obama

[Ratty]

Anyway, Constellation has been pretty controversial, even within NASA ranks. There are good reasons to cut our losses there and look at some of the competing designs. If we're going to do something big, let it be Mars or one of the Martian moons. Good reason to keep the ISS around awhile longer and dump the distraction of going back to the moon.

And NO it's not worth going back there for Helium-3 until somebody actually figures out how to fuse it - We don't even know how to fuse Deuterium and that's a lot easier to do. I get tired of that old canard that seems to come up every time somebody talks about going back to the moon. Show me a He3 fusion reactor and then we can talk.