Few Words on Space Exploration

After watching another unsuccessful lunar landing mission, I wanted to rephrase my points towards a successful space exploration roadmap.

There are a lot of ambitious startups that want to show their skills to the world. With limited resources and know how they undertake missions. Some accomplish the mission some not. Space exploration requires intense human and monetary power to operate. The efforts should be united, the knowledge should be centralized. More importantly, the ambitious roadmaps should be accomplished on solid foundations.

For example, for the goal of establishing a lunar station you need to establish the infrastructure first. It's been more than six decades that we started missions towards the moon. We still don't have a satellite network around the moon. Companies still try to send landers. When their missions fail, they have very little information to study what went wrong. More importantly, the missions are not harmonized with one another. I don't know how much information gained by one company shared with the others. Little bits of closed knowledge don't help a country excel in the space race. That's why space agencies were formed. These agencies need a reform for sure. A proper business model should be developed for them. Intelligent people who are in love with space should be able to work efficiently within the agencies instead of forming another startup. 

We have so much individual missions planned. However, humanity still don't have a proper lunar lander technology. Almost all the tiny landers are a small copy of the Apollo lander. Is that all the innovation we could develop after all those years? We cannot learn much about the moon if we can only land on the large flat areas with a low success rate. In the meanwhile people talk about asteroid mining. If we cannot land on a flat moon surface properly how can we land on an uneven terrain of an asteroid and mine?

Success lies on the infrastructure. Establish satellite network around the moon. Design a lander that can land on most terrain with high success rate (I had proposed several alternative designs.). Use nuclear batteries on the landers. Finally, and most importantly develop a central knowledge base. Startups don't have access to all these technologies and we see the result. Once you have strong foundation, you can build high-rise buildings.