/sci/ - Science & Math

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html

You will never fly a spaceship around Saturn.

Watch this, be amazed

I say space exploration will end up like deep sea exploration already has.. a tiny side effect of big companies exploiting resources.

If there even IS a mars mission, I doubt any nation will bother much with space exploration after that.

They are busy enough with their own population, each other and keeping the status quo.
The space race was never as much about "Spaaaaace" or Science as about US and USSR wanting orbital superiority.

Terraforming is still beyond us, would presumably be at a geological timeframe, and need international backing if ever possible.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html