Posted on 11/12/2014 9:17:19 AM PST by rktman
In the Apollo and Shuttle eras, America was cooperative, but pushed international comers. We led. Our leadership was built on looking forward. We trusted ourselves, embraced risk, understood daring exploration, and saw the future as worth winning. We had an itch to learn, to be first -- in a word -- to lead. In that process, high-technology jobs were unceasingly created in all 50 states, with spin-offs from microwaves to GPS, synthetic fabrics to iPhones, helping advance every sector of the U.S. economy.
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Space leadership will have to wait until the (hopefully) successful completion of CW-II.
It really is back to the future with Orion.
And Dream Chaser IS a good solution, what the shuttle should have been: just big enough for 6 to 8 people, focused on human transportation, not being an all purpose vehicle.
We supposedly learned the folly of multi-role vehicles with F-111.
But it’s fated to be like this if the government continues to monopolize space access.
The U.S. is leading the world in space. We’re just doing it through private enterprise via companies like SpaceX,Bigelow, Orbital Sciences, and others.
But Muslims are feeling good about science now...
LOL! Can you say KA-BOOM? They may be leading the way but how much subsidy money are the getting? Special breaks on use of govt launch facilities? Has mr. tesla started building dikes to prevent the flooding that’s predicted due to glow-bull discombobulations at the Cape?
Actually a combination of government contracts with private companies and fully governmental agencies.
The American Jet Propulsion laboratory is going to give us our first looks at Pluto in July. They’re also the folks behind the Dawn spacecraft that is looking at dwarf planet Ceres next year. NASA is behind the Juno spacecraft that will return us to Jupiter in 2016.
Anyone who says we aren’t leading is a fool. HOWEVER, we are well behind where we should be and that has nothing to do with muslim outreach.
Hence the F-35. Oh, wait...
“We supposedly learned the folly of multi-role vehicles with F-111.”
Then there is the F-35, so, obviously, we have not.
True enough, they may be private companies but they’re contracted to work on taxpayer dollars.
Probably quite advantageous to do things this way till private is ready to truly go it alone.
I toured the Johnson Space Center last year. The whole place is a whitewashed tomb of a dead space program. There isn’t anything serious going on there. NASA is just another wasteful non-functioning bureaucracy. It epitomizes all that we once were, and have now become.
Dennis Miller made a clever observation some time back about NASA’s outreach to the Muslims.”The only times the Muslims will want to go to the moon is if the Israelites settle there.”
Uh, no. The New Horizons spacecraft now on its way to Pluto was built and is operated by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel MD.
You are correct not that it makes much difference since they’re all federally funded.
I read the headline and hoped to find out we had finally built that giant clown cannon to launch our elected officials into the dark.
Yes, the Arabs will rush right in, build a mosque, and claim it has been a holy site for thousands of years.
Then they'll lob rocks at Earth accusing us of trying to take away "their" land on the Moon. Then they'll all butcher each other in arguments on how to face Mecca during prayers.
Part of the problem is that this administration is not committed to space exploration. Actually, since the moon landing, no administration has given space exploration the necessary commitment needed to move forward.
There are no voters on the moon.
The last scheduled moon landing was scrapped when Nixon was president and Skylab was born.
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