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.
“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.”
Yeah this is what they are all about now... Cheap kiddie tourisim to make a buck. siigghhhh
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