Apollo and the Zheng He expeditions were both spectacular dead ends. "It is by practical efforts ... not by glorious bureaucratic white elephants, that the successful pioneers will, in good time, explore and develop the solar system."
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No. But it should be done at a far more economical scale and cost than astronaut projects to date (if this means just robots, so be it), and without the economic fantasies that followed in the wake of Apollo and still distort space development.
