Posted on 11/04/2004 8:31:49 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/spacestoryN1104PREZSPACEE.htm
"President Bush's re-election will jump-start his plan to send astronauts back to the moon, transforming a new vision for space exploration into serious marching orders, analysts said Wednesday. What's more, NASA will have until 2008 to get the new presidential initiative entrenched enough to make it difficult to undo."
Ok, If your anti-NASA, this aint the thread for you. Please start one of your own. This news story and thread is a meant for celebration of Bush's victory and the continuation of the new space iniative. If your passion is space exploration as mine is, this election was critical beyond words. We won! Victory, we are ON OUR WAY! This news story is exactly what we wanted to hear. Thank you President Bush!
"This cause of exploration and discovery is not an option we choose, it is a desire written in the human heart." -President George W. Bush
Great. As if we aren't already throwing enough money down earthly holes.
Space ping.
Send a man to Mars.
read the story!
"Great. As if we aren't already throwing enough money down earthly holes."
I think Bush's win was the biggest hurdle for this plan, now we can go to work on getting back to the moon.
Actually, I'd prefer to see us stepping foot on the moon again within the next two years, rescinding the UN treaty on ownership of celestial bodies, and annexing the moon. BEFORE CHINA DOES.
Hell, while we're at it, let's just completely withdraw from the UN and ship Coughing Anus and Co. to France.
We are on our way back to stay! Weve waited a long time for this. President Bush never ceases to amaze me with his forward thinking on so many levels.
One thing I like about Bush is that he thinks about the future of this nation. I think that his belief is that when this planet goes he does want the American ideals of freedom spread thoughout this universe.
Well, I hope they get their @sses in gear. I haven't seen any real life out of NASA since before I worked for them at JPL in the early 80's. (sorry. I didn't mean to bash. I just couldn't help it)
We should have gone back to the moon decades ago. I vividly reember those heady days of Mercury, gemini and then Apollo launches---One time in the mid 60s, riding my bike around the neighborhood with a little transistor radio strapped to the handle bars, listening to reports of th docking procedures of Gemini and walking in space...
To the Moon and beyond, why, beacuse we can, we should and we will. The costs? It is worth any cost. Its our modern day ventures of Magellan, Cook, Drake and others...
My wife and I were reflecting the other day and the size of the Pinta was not much bigger than our RV---amazing when you think about it...Apollo going to th Moon in 69. Three guys in a tin can, the LEM with walls not much thicker than tin foil, in fact it was tin foil if I remember... Those days were heady, protests in the streets, a cultural revolution, a war in a far away land and at the same time these unbelievable pictures from the Moon. I was a young teenager then and I was filled with awe and wonder...yes go to the Moon.
Because the cost to not explore is greater. We must always move forward. These are NOT just pretty words....
“We shall not cease from exploring, and at the end of our explorations, we will find ourselves at the same place and know it for the first time.” - T. S. Eliot
"Frontiers of any type, Physical or Mental, are but a challenge to our breed. Nothing can stop the questing of men, not even Man. If we will it, not only the wonders of space but, the very Stars are Ours" -- Andre Norton
That sounds a little bit like JMS of Babylon 5. Huh, I wonder if Bush used to watch...
I got so tied up in the other issues, I never compared Bush's space plan to whatever Kerry's was. Not very bright of me, but I did support Bush!
I think you could add several other "ideals" to freedom.
Tagline: "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." Jonathan Swift
Clearly, you didn't use any reason in your post. Your implication is that we're "throwing money away by sending it into space". Well, I don't think the astronauts carry much cash with them up there. And I'm sure there's a wee bit of gold we send into space never to return, but not much.
The fact is that virtually every cent stays right here on earth paying employees who actually do productive work. That's much better than Welfare.
I do have my doubts about NASA. They'd probably do better contracting out to Burt Rutan. But... whatever it takes, I want to see us turn into a genuine Space Fairing planet.
Space.... The Final Frontier.
Kerry would have been a disaster for space exploration. I dont even want to think of it anymore. Bush is thinking way beyond his own term of office on so many levels. NASA is just one of them.
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