“If NASA is Amtrak in space, then SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets, a glamorous effort led by a hype man who promises that every logistical problem will melt away if we can just get people to the destination.”

#BARS! I’m reading this piece making the case against human exploration of #Mars, and it’s crushing my childhood dreams and also making too much sense. This line above though! Have you read the piece?

https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

#space #nasa #spaceexploration

Why Not Mars (Idle Words)

@baratunde You may be interested in @DanielSuarez’s “delta-V” and its about-to-be released follow up “Critical Mass” as dramatizations of the near-term complexity of the NewSpace initiatives. While it is fiction, it is well-researched and made many of these points.

https://www.amazon.com/Delta-v-Daniel-Suarez-ebook/dp/B07FLX8V84/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1DIA9Q9WEFZP8