To pick one egregious example, we visited Uranus exactly one time, in 1974, and discovered the planet is really weird, colder than any planetary model predicts but with a strangely hot corona, a bizarro magnetic field, and... that's it. No plans to go back. Just dads to the Moon.
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(Sorry, got my dates wrong. The one Uranus flyby took place in 1986, with 1974 hardware.)
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Why can't we have even one space billionaire who is obsessed with flying in a wingsuit on Titan instead of just cosplaying Project Mercury, or promoting a Fyre Festival on Mars? Why do they all have to be so basic? America needs better billionaires.
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We have to have the space station. Without it we wouldn't have any reason to launch space shuttles any more.
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But when we have asteroid mining and factories in space we can have ten of these missions per week.
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