(Please Pardon,if you can,-What I Feel to be the Neccessary Length of This,-Perhaps I Can Submit This in 2 or 3 Parts.Come to Think of It,-I'll Do So.)-PART ONE,--I'd Like to Salute our Newfound Space Resolve of the Past Several Days! This,-While Largely Not a Direct Survival and Preparedness Matter,(Though Space of Course Has Many Survival Imperatives of It's Own!,-a Prime One being Air!,-One we oftentimes Don't Have Down Here.),-This Does Nevertheless Tie In so Well,-with that Whole Spirit of Adventure,Exploration,and Discovery!,-Which Pervades that Great Outdoors Sphere of Our's,-So Well! This is How It is Relevant. It's Now High Time and Long Overdue!,-That we Finally!,-Once Again Go Back! Our Next Steps.We've been"Shuttle Doddling"Around in Low Earth Orbit,-Long Enuf! It's Time to Get On Back Out There! I'm Well Aware of the Budgetary Angles Involved as Well,-I Therefore Think It's a Matter which shud be Spread Out Over Time,-at least for the Immeadiate,and Somewhat Intermediate,-of a Future. -Take It somewhat Easy at First,-Seed Money to Get the Ball Rolling,-and to once again First Dip,-our Feet into the Space Pool,-Before Later Doing any Dives Into the Deep! -Towards Our Ultimate "Boldly Going Where No Man Has Gone Before!"(And"Woman/Person",-for that Matter) Mankind Is Heading Out There!,-In One Way or Another,-Sooner or Later! It's in Our Very Nature and Destiny! Moreover,-Whatever Angle One Looks At the Space Coin from!,-We're Gonna Absolutely Need to Go Out There!,-We'll Have No Choice in the Matter!,-There's Minerals to Mine from the Moon and Asteroids!,-Great New and Needed Energy Resources!,-Room for an Ultimately Expanding Population,-We're Gonna at Sometime Have To Deflect some "Roids",-Heading Our Way Toward Earth!,-(How's That!,-for a Practical Benefit of Space to Us Right Here on Earth!) So We'll Mayswell Just Face and Fess Up to This!,-and Get Down To,-the Brass Tacks Business of It All. But with Immediate Budgetary and Economic Things being What They Are,-we Can't Just Jump Blithely into the Deep End!,-Certainly Not Yet,-Anyway,-Like in Fording a Stream,-We Must Do so Step by Step with a Stick,-But Let U.S. Now So Begin!,-Our Long and Destinious Journey Begins with a Single Step,-and These Present and 1957 Onward Times,-Are!,-Those Very First Steps!,-It is Mankind's / Our,-Moment! We're Priveleged to Now Live Amidst It!,-as Gagarin so Well said,-In Days and Years to Come,-We'll See and Do Things Plenty Greater!,-Than Anything we can See or Imagine Now!,-But They Will Always Fondly be Looking Back to Us!,-Here in Our Own Time,-as the Very First! That is Something They Themselves,-Will Never Be Able to Feel!,-Certainly Not as Their Own! -It's Ours! It's Our Time and Moment! As the Spaniards and Portuguese Siezed Theirs in Their Day!,-and Rose To the Task,Challenge,and Occasion in Their Time!,-Let's Now Do So in Our's! Man Cannot Just Up and Stop! It's Only in our Nature!,-to Get Out There and Discover and Explore! So It's Great and Welcome!,-that we've Just Taken Another Great and Crucial First Step,-in just These Last Few Days! We've Got to Want To!,-That's One of the First Things we've Got to Do! We've Now again,-Made a Pretty Good Start!,-as we once Did,-Back in the Mercury thru Apollo 60's. -Let's Now Keep At It !! But Space and It's Spending is More than Just the Thrill of Exploration and Discovery Alone! -Just as It's Certainly More than just Low,Earth Orbital Development!,-Alone! In the Trailblazing 60's,-It Had to be Largely Exploration Alone. But from the Post Apollo 70's Onward,-It's to Be a Proper Measure and Combination of Both,-Our Space Exploration and Development Arms! It's Time to Once Again,-Lift Up our Exploration One Now! Perhaps I've Already said It,-but Space is a Vital!,-Investment!,-in our Very Survival,-and Tomorrow! It's Not just some Nice Little,Academic, Thing to Do! As Before with Apollo,-It's One which Can and Will Pay Off!,-and Very Handsomely! -Great,New, Spinoffs and Dividends! Not All Investments Pay Off,-But the Only One's that Do!,-Are Those Originally Made! And Space is a Sure One!,-to Come! Even if at any One Moment,-We Cannot yet See the Specific Payoff,-Nor When or How It Shall Come! Not Only Do we Go for the Thrill of Exploring!,-Though at Heart This is my First Love!,-but Because It is Such a Crucial Investment in Our Very Tomorrow! -We're again Just Gonna Have To! Space Exploration is the Key!,-to Such Followon Space Investment and Development! Apollo Leads our Shuttles!,-Not Vice Versa! I'm as Acknowledgeing of the Development Side of Things,-as Anyone Else,-I Make something of a Point,-of Saying that I'm into "Space Exploration and Development",-Not Solely Space Exploration Alone! But We've Got to Have that Great and Special Thrill of Pure Out Exploration Too!,-and It's Gotta Lead! I've Grown Up with the Space Age! It and I Have the Common Birth Year of 1957. Beginning somewhere with the Geminis,-upon Getting Old Enuff to Know,-I've Ardently Followed,-Our Gemini,Ranger,and Apollo Efforts to Get to the Moon! It was a Given that we were Gonna Get There!,-if Not Always Entirely Easily.It was Just Around the Horizon!,-Americans were Gonna Do It!,-Only Naturally and Of Course! And By Golly George we Did! And I Mean I So Followed ALL of the Apollo Moon Missions!,-Not just Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collin's Apollo 11! They are One of the Closest Things to my Heart! Yet Then Right on the Heels of 11 !,-Right Amidst These Remaining Spandiferous Apollos!,-I Begin somewhat Shockedly and Unexpectedly,-Hearing All This Space Spending Cutback!,-Sort of Stuff! I Wasn't Floored or Anything,-but It was a Reasonably Good and Unexpected Hit! I Plugged On,-Thru the Remaining Apollos and Beyond! With that Anti-Space Crowd and Their "Arguements "Soon Holding Sway!,-and With some Budgetary and Economic Things being What They've Been,-from those Early 70's Days Onward, -We Have Astonishingly Not Been Back to the Moon Now!,-For Nearly an Entire One Third of a Century!!! -Just Puttering Around in Low Earth Orbit!,-and That's When we're Up There At All! Alongside the Shuttle/Station Complex,-The 70's Thru 90's Shud Have Been a Time of Post Apollo,Follow On, Manned Exploration and Colonization of the Moon! Coupled with a Lunar Orbiting Space Station, and a Cislunar Shuttle! The Voyagers and the Like were Great!,-but There Shud also Have Been the"Grand Tour",-to the Outer Planets,-while we Had the Chance! Last but Not Least,-We Should Be at Least Well on Our Way,-to a Manned Mars Landing by Now! I Have No Real Qualms about It being an International Effort, as Opposed to a Purely American One!,-though I Would Much Prefer that It Be a Free,-as Opposed to a"Tyrannical World",Effort. But we've So Got to Go! We Could Have!,-and Though we've Delayed Ourselves Some Decades,-
-We Now Yet Can!,-Let's Raise Our Sails!,-and Be About It! As to Budgetary and Economic Considerations,-We Shudn't Have Got Ourselves into Such Messes in the First Place!,-It's Not like That Unavoidedly Had to Happen! But Now that some of That Has,-Let's Appropriately Go Cautiously and All,-But Let's Go Most Definitely!,-as Well! Our Space Spending and Investment Will Come to Lift Us OUT of our Economic and(Many)Other Sorts of Problems!,-Not Push Us Down Deeper into Them! It's sorta Like the First Years of Loss,-in a Promising New Business! Space is One Heck of a Spando Investment!,-and One We Just Cannot Afford Not to Make! (I Think This is Now a Good Stopping Point for Part One,-Part Two will Follow in a Later Post,-and I Think It will be Shorter than This One. Thank You for your Attention, Reading, and Consideration.) [color:"black"] [/color] [email]ScottRezaLogan[/email]