Posted on 02/03/2018 1:06:11 PM PST by Voption
It is essential for any nation that wishes to thrive and compete on the world stage to have a successful and flourishing aerospace industry, centered on the capability of putting humans and payloads into space affordably and frequently. This is a bipartisan position held by elected officials from both American political parties since the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957...Unfortunately, since the beginning of the 21st century the U.S. government has struggled to create and maintain a viable launch industry. Even as the government terminated the Space Shuttle program, with its ability to place and return humans and large cargoes to and from orbit, NASA’s many repeated efforts since the mid-1980s to generate a replacement have come up empty.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnas.org ...
Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
- John F. Kennedy
"AMERICA FIRST."
- Donald J. Trump
I’ve been wishing that we’d mine the asteroids ever since I saw The Empire Strikes Back.
Sports are far more important to mankind than mere entertainment. They are the petri dishes of social and moral engineering.
The True Story of Hidden Figures, The Forgotten Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/forgotten-black-women-mathematicians-who-helped-win-wars-and-send-astronauts-space-180960393/
[ I’ve been wishing that we’d mine the asteroids ever since I saw The Empire Strikes Back. ]
We have the tech to mine asteroids, but it would devalue the price of so many precious metals on earth that it collapse the economy, or so they say... I for one would love gold plated furnishings around my house you could buy cheap at home depot. Because gold is anti-bacterial.
Hey!
I think you might really enjoy Zimmerman’s take on this Topic. (as well, he wrote a very good book, circa 2004-ish, called “Leaving Earth.”)
-If Trump can get a grip on NASA, he could very well make it Great Again, and at 1/2 the price!
Gold would work for harnessing geo thermal power. It doesn’t rust or corrode.
I hope so...but it seems like all the attention is on Bezos stuff and Elon Musk Space X loopy-things.
The Falcon Heavy launch is this Tuesday.
We’re on the verge of having the best space capability ever measured by economics. I don’t know why people are whining and moaning.
Obama ended the manned space program because it was elitist and didn’t involve the correct PC level of non-whites. He also hates the military.
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