All fired up about space proposal (California Aerospace Industry revival ahead?)

OC Register ^ | 1/10/04 | Chris Knap

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Reports about a new U.S. agenda for manned space travel sent aerospace stocks climbing Friday and brought back a wave of nostalgia for the '60s and '70s, when everything from rockets to space capsules were built in Southern California and even the cars were styled like spaceships.

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>>>>>>>>>>>>"Boeing and Lockheed are the natural participants in a new space initiative – they are the primary contractors. But it would also bring a longer-term invigoration to the whole space industry. I think this is a long-term picture – maybe 20 years – but one that could prove very beneficial to these companies," Arment said.

Which is the answer to everyone who says that no one benefits from the space program. I'm guessing that in the absence of the US Space Programs, plastic would probably remain a little known chemical substance that was manufactured by Imperial Chemical. Manufactured primarily In Great Britain, rather than in the United States.

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If we're going to get the most bang-for-our-buck in the Space Program, then I don't see it being located in California much longer. Apart from Goldstone, everything else should be relocated to less expensive, more business-friendly states. I don't think any boom from the space race should be used as a tax revenue vector to prop up all the programs for Illegals out here.

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Which is the answer to everyone who says that no one benefits from the space program. I'm guessing that in the absence of the US Space Programs, plastic would probably remain a little known chemical substance that was manufactured by Imperial Chemical.

Not to mention that micro- and mini-computers would have taken much longer to come to market. The Apollo program drove the need for smaller computers.

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Guns, butter, and Space. Not the 1960s again?! What did the "greatest generation" of W.W.II do first?

"In my view, the stakes are much higher in the war on terror than in anything we've faced since World War II, and probably World War II as well," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers.

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Rocketdyne - Fifty years of playing with fire.