[The Working Man]

When you buy or steal most of the necessary technology, it makes it a lot easier to match what the other guys have already done.

It’s putting in the effort and “Money” for advanced R&D that will prove how serious they are about it.

[ClearCase_guy]

Lord knows we are no threat to their preeminence.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Their plan is to dominate space.

[DakotaGator]

...China has taken the best of what they've imported from the Russians, learned from America and the European Space Agency, he said, "and are building a distinctive Chinese program."

Good way to gloss over Clinton's blatant selling of our space technology to China for his personal gain. And no mention of the massive espionage mounted by Red China to steal our space technology allowed by Carter and continued by every Democrat in the White House since.

That's how Red China came from behind so quickly.

Now we are a fading power in everything, including outer space. Our population has been dumbed down. Work ethic has been stifled. Business is being crushed out of existence by our government. We make nothing. And NASA's primary mission is to fill Muslim space with our money and technology.

This is the Democrats' dream of totalitarian vice representative government. It is their dream of rulers and slaves. But it will become their nightmare as they find themselves also living in the slave quarters instead of the ruler's palace.

So don't look to the stars, Democrats. You've built the fence that's going to keep America out of space.

[henkster]

I took a tour of Johnson Space Center last Sunday while in Houston. It’s pretty much a decaying museum of what was once our technological prowess. All they are doing now is wasting time on various schemes to put a man on Mars...sometime between 2030 and 2035. Or so they claim. When asked if anyone had any questions I had to pipe up with “so what you’re saying is the astronauts who will fly this mission are in elementary school right now.”

NASA has a training hangar with mock ups of the current space station. It doesn’t look that high-tech. It looks like my garage (only much larger). Notably absent from the facility was anything to do with the People’s Republic of China. They are obviously going their own way. And I can see why they are reluctant to deal with the memo-writing bureaucrats from NASA.

I’m guessing the Chicoms will get the Russians to jump ship, join them, and dump our sorry asses. The Europeans and Japanese will have to follow. Then it’s a question of how we get our astronauts into orbit since we aren’t interested in doing any real space stuff any more.

[rlmorel]

They already have. They can put people in space, and we cannot right now.

[Dahoser]

Unmistakable warning signs Writing for the journal Foreign Policy this month, John Hickman, a professor of political science at Berry College in Georgia, said there "are unmistakable warning signs that China may surpass the United States and Russia to become the world's pre-eminent spacefaring power."

Yes, but we'll be the world's preeminent Muslim outreach power. So there!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They can only go as far as they have prototypes to copy.

[ScottinVA]

Sad story that we’re no longer in the running, but with the election of Barack Obama, America chose the second tier of the world power structure, and reaffirmed that choice in November.

[Cyman]

Years ago when I wanted to take flying lessons,the teacher had us guess about what makes an airplane fly.

$$$ we were told.

China’s economic boom has gone poof and all of those yuan are getting harder to come by. So expect those lofty space exploration notions to also go poof.

[dfwgator]

But hey, at least NASA is making Muslims feel good about themselves.