Alex Howerton has an interesting op-ed piece at The Space Review looking at the present and future state of American space exploration and doesn’t find much to feel confident about. Inadequate funding, weak political support and an apathetic public are all dragging down the U.S. effort. A change of administration next year may well doom the human moon program.
Howerton has a solution, however: go back to the future. He proposes resurrecting the 1986 National Commission on Space report, Pioneering the Space Frontier. Dubbed the Paine Report after its chairman, Dr. Thomas O. Paine, it is an excellent road map for future space exploration, Howerton says.
You can read his full commentary here.
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