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Estrogen-fueled emasculation.
If that truly is the mindset at the top, those leaders must, MUST be replaced asap. Otherwise nothing space-related will proceed as most the public expects. Get those progressive zealots out of there!
Is Mars mentioned in the Koran or in any of the hadith? If not, there would be no reason for NASA to take an interest in going there.
Reading between the lines, they do not want the United States to be in a position to gain any benefit from space exploration, unless most of the benefit goes to the Third World.
NASA needs a mass firing, and be completely replaced.
Before I knew him, my ex was part of the team that got Apollo 11 astronauts down safely. He was a WW2 fighter pilot and eternal GREAT Patriot.
I can only imagine the rate of spin in his grave.
Muslim outreach, what utter horseshit. That obama was a terrible president.
NASA went to pot when it started funding James Hansen to vilify CO2.
Leftists would rather spend all that money buying votes. The Democrats main constituency could care less about space exploration. Its a white thing I guess.
Hmmmm ... so Muslims are from space.
I think it goes back farther, back to the decision to focus on manned space flight after Apollo.
Personally, I date it to Bush 41, and the pushing of the ozone hole to help Dupont’s freshly patented Freon reformulation as the old patent was expiring.
When we got into the space truckin bidness the shuttle was a waste of time and money
Rapid downhill spiral began when they persecuted one of the German scientists for alleged war crimes and forced him to leave the US. NASA never recovered from that. They replaced the self-taught Germans with college ‘educated’ boys.
I think we'd be better served by re-engineering our orbital and lunar technology first. We need new thinking regarding launch designs, reentry, and orbital stations.
We need to be able to sustain a constant supply chain to one or more orbital platforms, as well as transport between orbital platforms.
And we need these new designs to be upgradeable as technology continues to advance.
All of this will increase our presence in orbital space beyond a dozen people at once. At some point, we should be able to sustain 100 or more people in space. Hopefully, this could lead the way to true space-based industry.
-PJ
Mars is a totally inhabitable planet. The technological challenges are huge and expensive to overcome.
This is a demonstration of an extreme anti-colonial mindset where the fear is a phantom of a prejudiced mindset. Yet, apparently, she has a voice in these decisions??? Cleaning this depth of swamp will take far more than DJTs max 2 terms!
It began right after the moon landing.
NASA lost prestige and went over to PR crap after termination of the Apollo program back in the Ford or Carter years. They went from a scary bunch of extremely smart mainly geeky white guys with matching outfits and ugly horn-rimmed glasses, to an all-inclusive (except whites) touchy feely social ladder for downtrodden minorities.