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Americans Polled on Attitudes Toward the Space Program

posted by martyb on Monday June 24 2019, @01:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the meat-brains-need-not-apply dept.

takyon writes:

AP-NORC poll: Asteroid watch more urgent than Mars trip

Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a poll shows.

The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released Thursday, one month before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, lists asteroid and comet monitoring as the No. 1 desired objective for the U.S. space program. About two-thirds of Americans call that very or extremely important, and about a combined 9 in 10 say it's at least moderately important.

The poll comes as the White House pushes to get astronauts back on the moon, but only about a quarter of Americans said moon or Mars exploration by astronauts should be among the space program's highest priorities. About another third called each of those moderately important.

"More than 80% say the United States is not leading the world in space exploration."

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Monday June 24 2019, @03:22AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Monday June 24 2019, @03:22AM (#859236) Homepage Journal

    I'd like to see the lunar lander and two ICPSes launched into LEO with Falcon Heavy (or less), maximum $150M/launch. Then the lunar lander docks itself with an ICPS and takes a low-energy route to low lunar orbit. A Falcon 9 ($62M/launch) (or Boeing equivalent) takes a Dragon (total launch cost $160M) (or Boeing equivalent) up to dock with the other ICPS, which boosts them to LLO to dock with the lander. Lander lands and returns, Dragon undocks from the lander, docks with the ICPS again, and boosts home.

    Exactly. Going with the the just SLS doesn't make economic sense [youtube.com].

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