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Posted on 01/28/2010 5:43:01 PM PST by KevinDavis
This is a statement released Wednesday by Dr. Mike Griffin, former NASA administrator and now eminent scholar at the University of Alabama in Huntsville:
A few presidents have been very supportive of the U.S. space program, and numerous others have been more or less neutral. But only once previously has a U.S. president recommended to the Congress that this nation take a backward step in space. On that occasion, President Nixon canceled the Apollo program, a decision which in the long light of hindsight I believe will come to be regarded as one of the most significant, yet strategically bankrupt, decisions in human history.
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As can the election of Pres Obama.
How long before Obozo decides we should abandon the ISS to Russian and Chinese control.
Don’t give him any ideas..
He’s abandoning the high ground and leaving us vulnerable. Even if he only serves one term it will be decades before we get back to the anemic state we’re in right now.
Read a book by Ben Bova called Empire Builders
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I guess I am not far sightened because it gets harder and harder for me to see the benefit of the space staion. The Hubbell telescope at least furthers our knowledge of space and physics. What are we learning from the space station? The biggest benefits I see so far are to Russia who has benefited from our technology.
I am sure we have benefitted from other technologies to be used in real life but at what price? Would they have otherwise not been discovered or invented?
How long until the traitor in chief gives NASA research, ideas and facilities to Russia and China as a part of his strategy to diminish and marginalize the US of A in every way possible???
So many articles to read later!
The ISS is the placeholder but I do agree that its usefuness beyond that is dubious.
The problem is that we never seem to recover from our backsliding. Giving it up is ground that’s hard to regain.
Are we getting GREEN rockets?
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” -Albert Einstein
When man no longer asks the questions, his continued existence becomes the only question. I don’t think that God would have given us a capable brain and so many mysterious wonders, if He didn’t want us to keep looking....
But then, Obama doesn’t want us to move forward.
No, they are permitted to exhaust anything they want...it's you and I that can't use our fireplaces to keep from freezing to death without being sent to the hooskow!
Which reminds me, wasn't it NASA that was supporting 'global warming' with false data? Was anyone fired? Doubt it.
What is to keep them from 'adjusting' the data if feel they are 'saving mankind.'
An ongoing problem for the last few years has been deciding for what is it a placeholder? Taking men to Mars? Building the proper craft for the job which can be used for other efforts, too?
Mars may be close astronomically but it is not time wise. A craft that would significantly shorten the time probably could not be manned so what is the purpose?
I don’t favor killing NASA but is getting harder and harder to justify. It has also become a depository for graft, as have nearly all government programs, and a parking place for some liberals who use NASA to reenforce their credentials.
The U.S. manned space program is as of the moment, dead. It’s true, there’s no point in debating the question, NASA’s only plan for humans in space is to buy some tickets from Russia to the ISS and back - and when the ISS is deorbited in a decade or less that will even come to an end.
Nevertheless, I don’t blame Obama for killing the program - he only read the last rites - but the real murderer is the ISS. Having sucked up $100 billion and squelched any competent space goals I’ll be celebrating the pyrrhic victory when the hunk of useless metal crashes into the ocean.
“Would they have otherwise not been discovered or invented?”
Sure, perhaps in some other country, but definitly not in your life time. And definitely we would not be using the internet as we are now, cell phones would look like a shoe box, computers would be sporting 128 MB of RAM on a 300 MB hard drive for backups from the tape and punch cards in a 800 sq ft room.
You an tell by reading between the lines that Griffin is not only very sad, but extremely angry - can you blame him?
Nixon was a boon to the Chinese as was Clinton. Neither did this country any good. Now we have Hussein. and as many predicted back in the summer of 2008, he is cancelling NASA, except to study the man made global warming hoax using billions of tax dollars - just another way for Hussein to speed the country into bankrupcy with no gain to anyone but his ego.
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