Posted on 04/11/2019 12:41:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Nixon certainly did cancel the last three Apollo missions all by himself after one of his other stiffs on the WH staff pointed out the millions to be ‘saved’.
Why????????
Article states that a fully reusable lander was the original design. That makes a lot more sense when the mission involves a permanent orbital station, rather than a single landing and ascent as in Apollo.
Tricky Dick didn’t slash the NASA budget ... that came from the ‘Rat controlled Congress.
Here come the suede demin secret police
We’ve come for your uncool neice
Ok
r2d2 is in love.
“This new lander is separate from another lander concept that Lockheed revealed last year at the International Astronautical Congress. That design called for a much heavier, reusable lander that could take astronauts to the Moon and back in one piece without the need of a separate ascent element. But...Lockheed has been working on a design that could be developed much more quickly.”
Great. A lander that is not reusable, makes a great long-term contract for an outfit like Lockhhed Martin which will get to keep building them as often as NASA uses them up.
I applaud the “gateway” idea as a moon-orbiting platform and for a future jumping off point for deep space travel, that won’t require breaking earth gravity for a deep space vehicle to begin its journey.
But we should be now past NOT building reusable vehicles for space. Being reusable should be a must and that goal should not be expended just to meet short-term political goals.
This is not about Trump, and him and Pence changing the goal posts from 2028 to 2024. It’s about the idea that there was nothing wrong and a lot that was good about the 2028 deadline. Trimming the requirements just to meet the 2024 deadline will in the end obtain an accomplishment that will be less, in many ways, than it could have been if it were left to 2028.
2001AD has come and gone, and I’m still waiting for the Pan Am plane, and that glorious “Wheel in Space”!
Come on guys, I’m running out of time :o)
Suitcase Jefferson
LM will have to hitch a ride on a SpaceX booster. :^) For the FH launch today, I loaded a stream on the Roku, noted the T-minus, then set an alarm clock for a few minutes to go, because I was dozing off. When the alarm went off, the screen was still on, and the T-minus at 10 something. I went to another live stream and the craft was in flight. I was ****ed off. :^)
me too but i thought it looked like rachael maddow- thinking the site that had the photo drawn was probably flaming liberals
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