[Redcitizen]

W can’t find 1969 caliber NASA leadership? Fire them and replace them.

[Torahman]

Obama shut down NASA. Many of the top personnel moved to Russia and went to work for Putin. Americans cannot get to the Space Station without Russian Rockets. How pathetic! If that’s not Collusion what is!!

[catnipman]

“W can’t find 1969 caliber NASA leadership? Fire them and replace them.”

EXACTLY what I was thinking ... both of the above parts!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Pathetic, no? It took us less than 10 years in the 1960s. Now they set a 4 year goal and claim we need other nations?

There’s no way any organization or group of countries can pull that off in 4 years. At least they should set a realistic goal of 8 years.

The SLS is years behind schedule and billions over budget already, too, so there’s no launch vehicle.

[vannrox]

The USA went from absolute zero to moon walks in 9 years... alone.

But now we are told that this isn't possible at all unless we get international help. And then it will take a minimum of five years at twenty times the budget of NASA of 1966.

These Fuc@@ers disgust me.

Hey! Hows that bullet train thingy going. Youse guys all know that the USA and China both announced plans for nationwide high speed train transport at the same time.

Today, the American bullet train is still in construction. 15 entire miles has been done with 10 billion dollars of cost overruns. Not yet operational.

In China, the trains have been fully operational for over a decade and they are everywhere and super common. It's like this...

[cpdiii]

“We can’t find 1969 caliber NASA leadership? Fire them and replace them.”

Correct, however man has no place on the moon today. We can land on the moon and do robotic explorations at a fraction of the cost and obtain much more scientific information.

When the cost and safety of manned exploration is reasonable man does have a place on the moon. It is not today and probably not for many years in the future.

The Apollo missions to the moon were an engineering marvel. It was actually political of the East verses West. We won. I would have much preferred robotic missions. Much more science would have been done at a fraction of the cost.

We damn near lost Apollo 13. Only due to extremely superior people on the ground and in the capsule they returned safely. The Add Hoc engineering calculations for a failure that had never been anticipated were incredible. It had to be perfect. It was. Houston saved them. The command module was not functional relative to propulsion. It was damn near dead. Houston figured out how to use he lunar excursion module that was functional to put Apollo 13 back into the proper trajectory to re-entry to earth for the command module. This was an engineering feat of great ability.

Oddly we have the ability to put a man on Mars. The risks would be very great. The costs would be even greater. Our Mars explorers on the planet today are doing great scientific work.

If it “aint broke” don’t fix it.