[rktman]

What an embarrassment nasa has become. Fear mongering, muzzie outreach...... Flying folks? Oh, was that part of our job?

[Starboard]

Bureaucrats are self serving empire builders more than anything else. Any appearance of producing useful services is purely an illusion. Its all about them, not us.

In general, the more money an agency has the more corrupt and wasteful it is.

[cripplecreek]

Ted Cruz has already said he intends to work on getting them back on track with actual space exploration.

Naturally that sent the liberals off screeching about him not understanding science or knowing what NASA is for.

[offwhite]

"NASA has been allowed to degrade to the point where the agency that sent men to the Moon no longer has the capacity to even transport them to Mir, the space station built by the Russians"

Mir was deorbited in 2001. Perhaps the author is referring to the ISS, built by the Americans.

[Paladin2]

NASA GISS needs to be defunded.

[justa-hairyape]

Statist lie. It is their purpose in life. We need to get rid of them if we are going to survive the return of the ice age.

We got chance at breaking the only record that matters.

And since we are in the tail end of a solar maximum, it means we are in for big trouble.