Space Race 2.0

There's been an increase in the public discussion in the last six months on the establishment of lunar settlements, ever since the 2nd Space Exploration Conference in Houston in December 2006. Gregg Easterbrook wrote an article on NASA's plans for a lunar base for Wired nearly two weeks ago, then was interviewed on NPR, where he repeated some of his assertions and made some new egregious ones. While Mr. Easterbrook's priorities for NASA are only some among many valid possible goals for the agency, he makes incorrect and uninformed statements, unfair characterizations, and I believe misses the significance of manned space exploration. Click here and scroll down and read my comments.