Posted on 04/12/2005 3:02:13 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Michael Griffin, on a fast track for confirmation as NASA's next administrator, vowed today to complete the international space station, shorten the time needed to develop a replacement for the space shuttle and to revisit the possibility of a shuttle repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Well I hope they re-visit the Hubble, because it has yielded a wealth of photos of things never seen before.
I disagree, to me we focus on sending humans to the Moon and Mars. O'Keefe screwed up the Hubble, however, this guy seems to know what is going on..
"I disagree, to me we focus on sending humans to the Moon and Mars. O'Keefe screwed up the Hubble, however, this guy seems to know what is going on.."
I'm not sure what the scientific value of sending humans to the Moon and Mars is. It costs a lot less money to send robots to Mars than humans (at least assuming you want the humans to come back alive).
If NASA all manned space programs, the money saved could be used to fund future generations of sattelites and rovers that could give us much more information.
Space is not about science.. It is about exploration...
That isn't the purpose. There is plenty of science being done already. NASA needs to run some manned missions, especially to the moon on a permanent basis, but also to Mars at least once in our lives. The reason is to stimulate the kids to do their math homework and to dismay our enemies. If they want business in outer space they can modify the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty that is so precious to our enemies.
I know..
Good, we need someone who will look forward and not back.
We must turn and look in the direction we want to go.
Good, we need someone who will look forward and not back.
We must turn and look in the direction we want to go.
I agree. O'Keefe was ok, but he had to clean up the mess that Goldin left the agency...
I'm not sure what the scientific value of sending humans to the Moon and Mars is.
Was there no value in sending humans into orbit?
If that's the case we'd be better off pouring it down
the welfare rat hole.
We have got to get off this planet, and the sooner the better.
We need manned flights AND robots, prepositioning of habitats, man can wait on the past but it isn't getting
any closer, the future is.
Shhhh... the idea is to turn the Hubble into a giant death ray and point it at the Iranians!
Fool don't you know the Iranians visit ths site!!!
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