Moonbase Alpha
I do not care what you think of this current administration, or what your views on NASA, but every science fiction reader is hereby required to rejoice, or else turn in your card.
We are going back to the Moon! For Keeps!
NASA announced plans for a permanent base. Unfortunately international, and unfortunately not a private venture. So what? Back to the Moon! Rejoice!
For those of you too young to remember the Space Age, it was a time when men flew to other heavenly bodies. The Space Age ended with Apollo Seventeen. There then followed a period future historians will call The Dark Ages, when many (yawn) importent advances in astronautics (snore) were accomplished by robots (ho-hum), and we snapped many pretty pictures of places we were not going. However, the Dark Ages are ended, and the Space Age is about to resume.
Flying cars will be next, no doubt.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
