Nope. I made three objective statements in that post. The astronaut is displeased because for the last several decades the astronaut corps has dominated NASA and it’s budget. Losing that position is what he’s complaining about.
The ISS is irrelevant. No science is accomplished there and we’ve proven many times with numerous other programs that man can ride around the planet for a long time and when he gets back to earth it takes a while to recuperate. Proving that over and over ad infinitum is a ride to nowhere.
If Astronauts want to participate in the privatization of space (which is indeed coming to a launchpad near you) they can do so and their skills would be very useful.
Spending money on wasteful programs like manned moon flights and Mars flights is a jobs program. The fact that Bush initiated it doesn’t make it otherwise. It never ceases to amaze me how supposed conservatives on this site can come to the defense of a bloated govt agency like NASA and claim with a straight face that they want smaller govt and fiscal conservatism. You can’t have it both ways.
in your own opinion because your original comment was subjective, not objective.
Following such path, wouldn’t be the Chinese and Indians far more cheaper than anything America can build to reach Low Earth Orbit?
Following Obama’s administration, why not subcontrat everything with Chinese and Indians and use NASA to “I don’t know yet”?