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If it wasn't us, sooner or later someone was going to do it.

So lets make them play catch up.

Do it    After all, if you have so much money to waste... YOU PAY, we watch

We prefer to have medicare for everybody, free schools, free nurseries, universities which's fare is 300 $ A YEAR. 
safe trains that go at 200 miles an hour, owning half the production of Soyouz, 52 nuclear plants that assure us cheap electricity

We're so stupid froggies

Needless to say, I won't be offering my services to help with the programming; might as well ask a chimpanzee to do calculus!
                                               

Though someone must always lose in a race it may not always be the winner that wins. AS indicated by the florida today title http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/s … tm]Victory will jump-start space plans  I beg to question will it.

It is felt that since Nasa has four years to get started down the road to space exploration that it would be hard to undue.
This is what they hope to accomplish in that time frame.

And during Bush's second term, analysts said NASA would have time to get the initiative off to a solid start by:

Launching an initial robotic mission to map the moon, measure the radiation environment and attempt to find stores of water ice at the lunar poles.

Developing prototypes for a crew exploration vehicle and then staging a "fly-off" between the top two contenders.

Selecting launch vehicles to ferry astronauts and cargo on moon missions.

Designing lunar landers and other systems for the initiative.

Well we will just have to see if the congress continues to fight the president all the way to the bank or if there will be concession along the way during the next four years.

Ideally spacecraft should be launched from the equator so they take advantage of the earth's rotation but I wouldn't build a launch facility in another country.  I don't think there is really a need for another launch complex but building one in Southern Texas might be an option.

• Negotiate with international partners to obtain best way to transport remaining heavy modules to the ISS

The aluminum actually makes the concreate stronger and lighter. It is process they use here on Earth. The only danger is it may explode if left covered. Millions of gas hydrogen bubbles form as the mixture sets and the Hydrogen just seeps out the pores over time.The bubbles fill with air over time and this makes the concrete a good insulator,also. I think they will find a vast sub surface reservoir of water on the moon very soon.