And now for something completely different. Like most (all?) geeks, I love the idea of human space travel. I know we have got tons of problems to fix here, but I don’t think that should deter us from pursuing some of our other dreams (after all we wouldn’t have airplanes either had folks waited for everything else to be dandy). So I was dismayed to read that NASA’s mandate continues to be to pursue a heavy lift strategy. It is the space travel equivalent of scaling up instead of scaling out. ...
