<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Feb 25, 2017, at 8:59 AM, Henrique Moraes Machado <<a href="mailto:cetico.iconoclasta@gmail.com">cetico.iconoclasta@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Going to the moon just for the sake of it is useless. Staying there is what matters.</span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>True. It's not unreasonable to think a flashy lunar mission might simply end in another Apollo debacle. Of course, it's a different context now with private spaceflight and even nations like India starting to become big players. The US government might waste billions on an Apollo redux, but it's no longer a world where just two national governments own the field. </div><br><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div></body></html>