Space habitats beyond LEO

> On Jan 11, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Joe Strout joe@... [spacesettlers] wrote:
>
> Whether de facto or de jure, we had a "moon taboo" that prevented almost
> all lunar programs for decades after Apollo.

May I remind you of the SEI Bush seniors early 90s plan to return to the Moon and Mars?

There is also a Moon program circulating in Congress RIGHT NOW to use CCDev-style funding to return to the Moon. This plan has been the subject of numerous space articles and was funded by NASA.

> Lifting that taboo was one
> of the best things Bush did in his tenure, and I found it quite
> regrettable that Obama's comments effectively put it back.

You are misinformed. There was no taboo and is no taboo, quite the contrary as noted above.

There was a Congressionally mandated taboo on NASA Mars studies for a few years some time back. Perhaps that is what you were thinking of.

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> wrote:
Whether de facto or de jure, we had a "moon taboo" that prevented almost

all lunar programs for decades after Apollo.
May I remind you of the SEI Bush seniors early 90s plan to return to the Moon and Mars?
There is also a Moon program circulating in Congress RIGHT NOW to use CCDev-style funding to return to the Moon. This plan has been the subject of numerous space articles and was funded by NASA.
Lifting that taboo was one

of the best things Bush did in his tenure, and I found it quite

regrettable that Obama's comments effectively put it back.
You are misinformed. There was no taboo and is no taboo, quite the contrary as noted above.
There was a Congressionally mandated taboo on NASA Mars studies for a few years some time back. Perhaps that is what you were thinking of.