Posted on 07/09/2017 4:30:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“Let us do what our nation has always done since its very founding and beyond: We’ve pushed the boundaries on frontiers, not just of territory, but of knowledge. We’ve blazed new trails, and we’ve astonished the world as we’ve boldly grasped our future without fear.”
“From this ‘Bridge to Space,’ our nation will return to the moon, and we will put American boots on the face of Mars.” Pence declared.
Lined up behind Pence on the podium was the Orion spacecraft flown on Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014 flanked by a flown SpaceX cargo Dragon and a mockup of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsule.
The crewed Dragon and Starliner capsules are being developed by SpaceX and Boeing under NASA contracts as commercial crew vehicles to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
Pence reiterated the Trump Administrations support of the ISS and working with industry to cut the cost of access to space.
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Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot also welcomed Vice President Pence to KSC and thanked the Trump Administration for its strong support of NASA missions.
“Here, of all places, we can see we’re not looking at an ‘and/or proposition’,” Lightfoot said.
“We need government and commercial entities. We need large companies and small companies. We need international partners and our domestic suppliers. And we need academia to bring that innovation and excitement that they bring to the next workforce that we’re going to use to actually keep going further into space than we ever have before.”
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He is gonna touch all the mars rocks too, heh heh!
You mean eight years of slim outreach didn’t amount to anything?
Who would have thought?
“To the moon, Alice” (well, someone here had to say it, lol)
Be happy until then.
He’s gonna find out once and for all, in order to tell Sheila Jackson Lee, if the Mars Rover took any images of the flag Neil Armstrong planted.
It looks like he finally found something to do.
18 Trillion in debt and everyone still lives in fantasy land.
Send Sheila to replace that old flag on Mars with a new one.
Those pesky Russians probably hacked in and got the secret recipe.
National Pride and American exceptionalism is fine to spend our national treasure on. It’s the Marxist Bullflop we’ve been paying indigents to spend their ‘food stamp cards ‘ at tooless joints that has to end along with welfare and Medicaid.
Maybe this can be a joint venture with the Ruskies!!
I’d rather do it jointly with the Japanese.
I’d prefer them too.
Good ole Japanese efficiency.
LOL!
I saw the title of the thread and at first, that’s what I thought....KFC!
Yhere was a photo of then candidate Donald Trump flying to a rally on his 757 with a bucket of KFC in front of him on the plane.
Win for Mars...and us, too...
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