Posted on 02/11/2010 5:47:15 PM PST by KevinDavis
NASA's Constellation programme, which was going to fly manned capsules to the International Space Station in (maybe) 2015, to the moon in (maybe) 2020, and to Mars someday, is dead. Some people are mourning it. I'm not.
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Failure to maintain the high ground in space exploration is a coward-driven strategy...
I am truly grateful he was not president when space exploration was getting started.
Same here...
As does manned exploration.......it's a stupendous mistake to put manned missions on the back burner.
I was wrong in saying that... I can see that robots and humans in space together..
Making a convincing economic argument for it would have helped, but no one was able to do it.
Sure they did many times, but the liberal NASA hating media refused to publish.
“It seems that the entire plan is to make us all complacent crumb grabbers.”’
It seems that the entire plan is to make us all complacent Democrate voting crumb grabbers.
Fixed
Isnt that what I said?
Mmmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm... Barack Hussien Obama....
You left out the Dem voting part. :)
I hate this some bitch.
Teaching our children to be thankful for crumbs.
It is all about control, amigo; that is the goal of the statist bumwads.
Well, now Obama can give the money to ACORN.
Well, the media must have done a pretty good job at squelching it because I never heard a convincing economic argument for manned space (unless you want a job stimulus program for geeks). Not that they wouldn’t have jobs in the space program anyway. You still need engineers, but they wouldn’t need to engineer anywhere close to the amount necessary for manned systems. Unmanned is much less of a task, which means fewer geek jobs. Still, there’s a better chance of making economic sense out of the projects when they’re simplified in this way.
NASA has been collasally inept since Apollo 17.
The space shuttle was oversold from the beginning and is a resource hog.
And what exactly does the International Space Station do other be a reason for the space shuttle and visa versa? And what's with that wimpy name?
I would much rather see NASA fire the bureaucrats in Washington and refocus on space exploration.
Sign me up for field engineer on hubble.
Something others said was bs
They do marvelous things in the unmanned arena.
Agree with you on Hubble.
Source?
The dividends from such an endeavor would probably triple or quadruple the principle investment in less than a decade.
Using a fifty year old concept with already developed technology? And not achieving the first Moon landing until 2020 if everything went perfectly. How do you figure?
John Kennedy had his faults, but the space program was one of the wisest Presidential initiatives of the 20th Century.
For all practical purposes the Apollo program was already underway before JFK hitched his wagon to it.
The technology developed during that program is the basis for many of the technologies that lead our country and our economy today.
No it isn't. For instance, while the space program helped the early integrated circuit market by buying a lot of them, the technology was developed independent of the space program.
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