NASA moon plan was an illusion, wrapped in denial

New Scientist Space ^ | 02/11/10 | Henry Spencer

[KevinDavis]

I think the main reason some people where opposed to it: George W Bush..

[KevinDavis]

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[the invisib1e hand]

so it really did all happen on a lot in Hollywood?

Gosh, was Art Bell right about Kennedy, too?

[FormerACLUmember]

Propaganda cover-up for Obama.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"Case in point – NASA recently gave up trying to free the Mars rover Spirit from a sand pit it had been stuck in for nine months. But when the Apollo 15 crew's lunar rover got bogged down in loose soil, the astronauts got off, picked it up, moved it, got back on, and drove away "

Ya but, the Apollo 15 crew didn't keep working 7 years after their mission was over.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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So much better for the ChiComs to pass us in space industry and technology.

/s

[mylife]

I just got an email from a friend who’s wife is deeply involved in the shuttle program.

He says people at NASA are pissed, and this is the first time in 30 years that she has not been able to tell school children that “If you work hard, one day YOU could go into space”

Obama is destroying inspiration for millions.

[Habibi]

Yeah, there’s really no overriding need to do any of that stuff. Making a convincing economic argument for it would have helped, but no one was able to do it.

LEO and geosynchronous payloads are basically the bulk of the needs. The rest can be accomplished most effectively with robotic probes.

[KevinDavis]

Probes can’t do squat..

[GSP.FAN]

Bushes fault..

[OldDeckHand]

The cost of the 13-year Apollo program was somewhere in the vicinity of $150 billion, in today's dollars. That's roughly $11.5 billion a year. $11.5 billion a year is just over .3% of our current annual budget.

The dividends from such an endeavor would probably triple or quadruple the principle investment in less than a decade. John Kennedy had his faults, but the space program was one of the wisest Presidential initiatives of the 20th Century. The technology developed during that program is the basis for many of the technologies that lead our country and our economy today.

[ETL]

The ChiComs have aggressive plans for going to the Moon. They actually want to set up bases and colonize it.

[Vaquero]

So what does the Science Channel have on now? a show about how we are going to progress with the constellation program. I guess it is a few months old....

[KevinDavis]

It is a few months old..

[MamaB]

Amen. I can not understand why people do not see that if we are not involved in space, then other countries who hate us will be there.

[tacticalogic]

NASA’s plans were orders of magnitude more realistic than Obama’s vision of turning America into an affirmative action socialist paradise world power.

[WhiskeyX]

Never forget, Obama’s mission is to implement the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

[Gator113]

“Obama is destroying inspiration for millions.”

And this jerk is just getting started on his path of destruction. It’s sickening... and every day it gets worse than the last.

[mylife]

You’ve got that right.

It seems that the entire plan is to make us all complacent crumb grabbers.

[GeronL]

I think your right. All politics.