[Olog-hai]

Good thing Khrushchev isn’t still around to laugh at this.

[PghBaldy]

I certainly hope they are diverse, as diversity is our strength.

[Stormdog]

“The new class includes four men and four women”

and probably four more who aren’t sure.

[ThomasMore]

[Resolute Conservative]

Any muzzies? According to our liar in chief they are an integral part of our space program.

[brownsfan]

4 men, 4 women. Gee, how did that happen? Remember kids, it’s not how good you are, it’s your group membership that counts. I’m sure the 8 chosen are not only gender diverse, but also ethnically, and sexual orientation-wise.

Meanwhile, NASA is still busy pushing AGW while lacking launch capability.

America has become a parody of her once great self.

[Lazamataz]

NASA Selects Asteroid Mission Astronauts

With our current Adminstration, who's to say the mission isn't to lasso an asteroid and crash it into America?

[GeronL]

Somehow the 49 existing astronauts are all far too busy for a mission to an asteroid or Mars.

[Westbrook]

What happened to NASA’s Moslem outreach program?

Talk about violent alien lifeforms. On Star Trek, they would be Klingons, only without honor.

[Secret Agent Man]

So now we’re going to have 57 astronauts not going into space. great.

This was deliberately done as part of destroying the capabilities of the last superpower. Not having access to space, not being able to exchange astronauts off of our endeavor, the ISS.

[DManA]

I do hope all the known genders are represented - GLBTQQ[and more I think].

[USMCPOP]

Preparing for “Mission H: In search of Asteroids”.

[catnipman]

Let me guess:

Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Keith David and Steve Buscemi?

[cripplecreek]

Private industry will get there first.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Good thing Khrushchev isn’t still around to laugh at this.

************

Might be a good gig if you can get the work?!?

Advanced flight school & PR appearances...
....prolly retire before actual mission funding kicks in...

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

What? No Muslims? I’m shocked.

[Jack Hydrazine]

NASA chief rules out manned Moon mission in the foreseeable future

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/7/4193424/nasa-administrator-charles-bolden-rules-our-manned-moon-mission

(excerpt)
NASA administrator Charles Bolden has dismissed the idea that the space agency will attempt another manned Moon mission. Speaking with contemporaries, Bolden said “NASA will not take the lead on a human lunar mission... probably in my lifetime.”

Bolden added that if the next administration reverses NASA’s decision it would set back the manned space program in its entirety. He warned that, should we divert resources towards a manned moon mission in the future, we would probably never “see Americans on the Moon, on Mars, near an asteroid, or anywhere” in our lifetimes, explaining that “we cannot continue to change the course of human exploration.”

[Spirochete]

four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency’s astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston

So now we have 53 astronauts, but no spaceships, and no missions. And they all have to fly four hours per week in T-38 trainers to maintain their qualification as ... wait for it ... aviators.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"We will ferry you!"- Nikita Khrushchev.

I'm just so damn proud to be an American these days.

[hadaclueonce]

Wonder if anyone of these folks really think they will get off the ground?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

The only survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse.