I have mixed emotions on this one.
NASA has become an ineffective, politics dominated government agency. Funding them is throwing good money after bad.
But, when a nation quits stiving, when it loses it’s dreams, it’s a ticket to 2nd world status. Seems to me, this is one of many signals the American era is coming to an end.
NASA has become an ineffective, politics dominated government agency. Funding them is throwing good money after bad.
But, when a nation quits striving, when it loses it’s dreams, it’s a ticket to 2nd world status. Seems to me, this is one of many signals the American era is coming to an end.
I really do not see it that way. Frankly, I see little use for NASA going to the moon. During the Space Race with the Russians there were military objectives involved. Also, space was a great unknown. The early space programs were like the explorations in the 15th - 16th centuries in which America was discovered and explored.
However, once the New World was discovered, and every inch of it mapped, there was no point in voyages of exploration. We've been to the Moon. It was important back then, but now that we've made several missions and discovered that it's really just a big rock in space, there is no point in spending taxpayer money to go there again. I agree we should continue striving, but we need to strive to do something that has never been done.
The only thing that gripes me about this is the the money being wasted on a redundant moon shot will be wasted instead on glo-bull warming.
America does not need NASA to dream or look forward.
Do you think supporters of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln were thinking, “Dang, if only we had a NASA to get us to the Moon?”
But, when a nation quits stiving, when it loses it’s dreams, it’s a ticket to 2nd world status. Seems to me, this is one of many signals the American era is coming to an end.
You should have no mixed emotions - this is a truly sad commentary on what America now is. Kind of a female paranoid aspect to things. (That's the only people BO can get to work for him).
In the practical sense it really would not be that comparatively expensive to go back to the Moon (compared to the vast expenditures for social welfare), and stay there at some level, reaping the long term benefits. Certainly cheaper than a given block of Shuttle and ISS operations.
As you say the real unquantifiable tragedy is our loss of man's quest for exploration, which was led for a brief period in human history by the United States. Think of all those millions of youth who are now plunged into the Dark Ages of the western world (by the Left).
We are a castrated society, the way Barabara Boxer, et al, wanted it.
It could have been all different.
Johnny Suntrade
Take a look at all the departments with a larger budget than NASA and you can say the same about them. So why don't we unfund them too?
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Me too for pretty similar reasons.
NASA needs to burn down and arise like a Phoenix. That's hard to imagine right now.
But the country needs the pure science, the technology research and development and the high number of high-tech, high-paying jobs.
And this is exactly why zer0 is cutting the program.
Me too. The NASA of 2010 is nowhere near the NASA of the 1960's. Completely different mindset there now, as has been related to me time and again by a close friend who works on a shuttle refueling team. He was absolutely certain years ago that the Ares and the next moon shot would never get off the ground because of how bureaucratic and PC NASA has become. So many technological advances we enjoy today grew out of the technologies developed for the Apollo and Gemini programs it's ridiculous, but comparatively speaking, the current NASA can barely get out of it's own way because it's so top heavy with bureaucracy. It's a crying shame this country has turned its back on this sort of frontier pushing science, but we have. We'll look back in 30 or 40 years and regret taking the path of least resistance. Of that, I have no doubt.....
Privately owned and operated companies have big plans, maybe even grandiose plans, for the future of space. Certainly, they will be much better than NASA at the low earth orbit tasks.
NASA is a joke. It was good when the Germans ran it. Idiots at NASA have supported Democrat Bill Nelson “the space hillbilly liberal AH gomer dumba*s” Senator.
Nice to see NASA getting payback from Dems like UAW workers. Idiots. The UAW workers will be toast soon.
It is run like the postal service. The space program died with Von Braun. Idiots sitting around in America watching ball games on TV while illegals and liberal who control TV stole your country.
Maybe someone like Dick Rutan can change things. The fact Americans elected an illegal alien from Kenya means things do not look good for America.