Cheeky Devlin wrote:It's quite damning that it's taken this long to reach this point. Private companies shouldn't have to be the ones who are taking up the slack left behind by NASA who've spent decades pottering about in the back yard rather than pushing things to their next step. Admittedly that's most likely due to funding, but they should have been developing and driving down the cost of this stuff long ago.
Finally good to see some progress being made though. Exciting times.
We would see amazing progress if we told Trump that we would change the name of Mars to “Trump Planet” if he gave NASA the funding to land people there.
Although he’d probably want to paint the whole planet gold.