AES wrote:
SNIP
But our shuttle and Space Station programs should have been abandoned
long ago and their funding redirected to unmanned space capabilities and
challenges. Given the present and likely future state of space
technology "lunar colonies" are as utterly unnecessary as they are
immensely expensive; and the idea of sending people to Mars in the
foreseeable future is a fantasy. It's not a matter of policy choices,
it's a matter of the laws of physics.

I generally agree with most of what you've said, except there's a pretty
reasonable amount of science that's done in Earth orbit that's probably
worth it (various medical experiments in zero gravity, etc).



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