How long are the Russians going to fly us into space after we bomb Syria? Seems like an easy arrangement to end.
WTF!
----President Kennedy 9/12/1962
We then landed on the moon on 7/20/1969 - less than 7 years later.
It will take us until 2021 - 8 years just to get back up to the floating money toilet in low earth orbit.
Rutan will be putting Americans into Space before NASA.
It will be very interesting to see what happens first. Will the U.S. have another earth orbital space mission before the People’s Republic of China completes a manned lunar mission? How are we going to feel when the Chinese bring back the flag Neil Armstrong planted on the moon in 1969 as a souvenir?
Gee I wish we would have an active space exploration program again.
Leaving aside its potential military importance, I just have a real soft spot for a space program where we would go to other roundish surfaces and hopefully colonize, settle there. And we’d learn a lot more, too.
I guess I have a bit of the Dreamer in me.
ha!
Anyway, the Chinese, the Japanese, and others are still working on it. Do we want to be earth-bound when our good Chinese friends have colonized the moon and Mars and...and...?
If they say 2021, it will likely be delayed until 2026, followed by technical problems and further delays pushing it to 2029.
Last one out turn the lights off.
Pathetic...
The private sector is going to have to do the job
ceding the high ground
thx 0bama
If Obama had not cancelled the Orion spacecraft and its Aries-1 rocket, America would have already returned to space. Now our only hope is Elon Musk can deliver on what he bought with his hundreds of thousands of dollars of political contributions to Obama.
I am not sure what is worse: bloated, unionized bureaucracy or rent-seeking private industry through both and paid for political favors.
Fully funding more Solyndras is a higher priority with the current regime.