Here is another vision statement we were sent recently.
| The future which we want is one in which people have access to space. It is our vision that by 2050, tens of thousands of people are living in cities in space, on the Moon, and across the Solar System. In that future, the Moon has been thoroughly explored, surveyed, mapped, settled, industrialized, mined, and developed. The Far Side of the Moon is a haven for astronomers using huge optical and radio telescopes to survey the heavens. Very long baseline interferometry is possible using telescopes on the Moon and Mars as a baseline. Humanity is multi-planetary, with settlements on the habitable asteroids and Jovian moons. Comets have been visited and exploited. Some are talking about the stars. The first unmanned probe is sent towards the nearest star system, and more will follow. Most importantly, the industrialization of space has brought vast new resources to bear on the problems of Earth. Pollution is decreasing rapidly as energy from space makes the commodity price of electricity rather than oil the determining factor in the energy industry. Mining on Earth continues, but at a vastly reduced pace as lunar and asteroidal resources feed the industries of space which make far more of the technically sophisticated products of the future. Tourists from each planet visit exotic locations on others. In downtown Houston, children from families which settled on the Moon are a sight to make heads turn as they tour the city in their power-assist suits. Hotels on the Moon are a favorite for honeymooning couples, and the first bed and breakfast overlooking the Valles Marineris has just opened for business. You fill in the rest. That is a future worth dreaming about. It is a future worth working for, fighting for; it is a future that cries out like a wild thing in a wilderness, begging to be seen, felt, heard, touched, made real. You and I can make it real. We can take the present and mold it, shape it, bend it, and break it until that future is available, real, inevitable. Do you want to go? I want to go. Millions want to go. We can make that dream live. We can show the way, lead the way, stand for what we believe. If we don't, no one will notice. The world will go about its business, pursuing other dreams, making them real, and watch us die a little every day. If we try but half-heartedly, the world will nod its collective head knowingly, encourage us a little, and go about its business. We must promote a human settlement on the Moon. That is our goal, that is a goal that inspires, that is a dream that can live. To get there, we need free countries in which to work, free markets with which to generate wealth, and freedom with which to live. Please join us.
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