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New York Times' Gail Collins Aims Her Snark at the Space Program
Yahoo Voices ^ | August 25, 2013 | Mark R. Whittington

Posted on 08/25/2013 3:02:29 PM PDT by Marcus

Gail Collins, the New York Times columnist who was best known for a snarky book about how Texas has far too much influence over how the United States is run, turned her gimlet eye toward the civil space program.

Her column was a meandering look at the current crisis over which destination to pick for space exploration efforts going forward, with some side swipes against her favorite targets, Texas politicians such as Lamar Smith and Ted Cruz. Should be go to an asteroid (or rather, as the administration wants to do, bring it back) or go back to the moon. One gets the impression that Collins favors the former,

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To: miss marmelstein
makes Maureen Dowd look like Ava Gardner.

Wow, that's a picture.

21 posted on 08/25/2013 4:36:41 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Ask me about the Weiner Wager. Support Free Republic!)
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To: Marcus

I am willing to put up a cup of coffee for a GI overseas, that this piece of human flesh is not old enough to know what the space program really was all about.


22 posted on 08/25/2013 5:10:42 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: SunkenCiv

I went to a wedding in Texas this weekend. We had a free day Sunday and toured the Johnson Space Center. Other than the few people in Mission Control the place was deserted. I was last there in 1970, and even though I was very young then, the atmosphere was totally different. The Johnson Space Center is a decaying museum of what was once American technical prowess.


23 posted on 08/26/2013 6:32:54 AM PDT by henkster (If the Feds create an unlimited demand for bastard children, you get an unlimited supply of them.)
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To: henkster

I remember how forlorn Huntsville was in the later 1970s; and the only people I saw at the Cape were tourists.


24 posted on 08/27/2013 8:54:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: henkster

Sounds like the cape. One guy I know who still works out there refers to it as the Kennedy Space Museum. We’ve outsourced our own access to space. The main reason we probably even have funding going to SpaceX is because its CEO was a major donor to Obama (aka, crony capitalism). IMHO, if it were not for that, Obama probably would have canned the whole COTS program at the same time he canned Constellation. It’s really quite depressing.


25 posted on 11/22/2013 8:23:04 AM PST by messierhunter
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