NASA exists to satisfy a national travel itch \u2013 we want to explore \u00a0space and NASA’s rockets are the means of doing so. The problem is, there are only a few celestial destinations we’ll be able to reach in the next few decades. And NASA needs not so much a map as a method to get to them.<\/p>\n
President Obama wants to develop better rocketry before heading off again to the moon, or to somewhere else reachable in space, perhaps an asteroid and, ultimately, Mars. Truly, this is a high technological challenge.<\/p>\n
As The Washington Post<\/em> recently reported<\/a>, “future space flight, NASA officials say, now depends on new rocket science and where it can take us.”<\/p>\n
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<\/a>So NASA needs not to be wistful, but extra ingenious. Practicality never counted for so much in technological terms. If we’re going to venture further into space, we need better rockets. Our reach into space depends on getting better, ever more ingenious, technically.<\/p>\n