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That was (part of) the original plan, post Apollo program. Somehow it got stripped down to to just a space shuttle. :-(

The "we haven't solved all of our problems on Earth yet" crowd . . . as if we ever will.

Hell we put humans on another planet, we can fix the stuff down here if we really want

which other planet have humans been to? I can only remember humans making it to earth, which isn't that far of a journey ... from earth.

we put humans on a moon, and we've put robots on another planet.

It's a different kind of problem, unfortunately.