В общем, планеты оставляем. Они бесполезны и непригодны для практических целей космонавтики. Взлётно-посадочные расходы надо окончательно вычесть, путём их прекращения. К чёрту все эти ядовитые атмосферы, гравитации и пустыни.
http://21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2011/Manned_Space_Future.pdf"Going Nowhere
The stupidest criticism made of the 30-year Space
Shuttle program is that “it cost too much.” Relative to
what? Bank bailouts? Unnecessary wars?
In fact, it is irrelevant what the space program
“costs.” Every dollar spent returns on the order of ten
dollars to the physical economy, in new technology,
new manufacturing capabilities, and skilled jobs. What
the nation buys for a pittance of the money it spends on
space exploration is the future. For 50 years, the space
program has been an inspiration to young people, to literally
reach for the stars. How do you put a dollar figure
on that?
There is no project more important for mankind’s
future than exploring space. Our ability to forecast, and
later prevent, the natural disasters—immediate and
long-term—that threaten mankind, depends upon it.
Our economy, now functioning on a level of technology
that has been stagnant since the Apollo program ended
in 1972, will condemn millions of people to die if there
is not a science-driven forced march to higher-level
economic platforms based on new technologies.
Each time the manned space program has been
threatened with extinction, its supporters have saved it
through compromise. But there can be no “negotiating”
with an administration determined to throw the nation
back to the Dark Ages. It is past time to take the stand
that America will have a space program that befits a
great nation.
When President Kennedy announced the Apollo
program half a century ago, he told the Congress that it
would be costly. If they would not adequately fund it,
he said, it were better not to go at all.
Our nation faces an existential crisis. The policy we
adopt regarding our space program is a litmus test for
whether or not the nation has the uncompromising will
to move forward. That means reviving FDR’s Glass-
Steagall Act to create the credit needed to fund nationbuilding
programs, and removing the most anti-science
President in U.S. history, Barack Obama, from office."
