[clee1]

"We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used," said Collins...

Huh?

And just how does this idiot propose that we replace the resources we have supposedly "used"?

And this is what we send into space???

[hopespringseternal]

And this is what we send into space???

This is what happens when you pump up someone's ego over a menial accomplishment until it is ready to explode.

The men who landed on the moon were heroes. Shuttle astronauts are just civil servants with a god complex. We could fly shuttles for a thousand years, and the only accomplishment worthy of the history books would be the money we spent.

[Publius6961]

"We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used," said Collins...

WTF?

Is this flight to be forever known as the "Idiot Flight"?
Who is "we"? Does she have a mouse in her pocket or is she condemning her fellow astronauts?
I hope eventually she will be more specific.

One would think that an exquisitely educated and trained individual would know that, with the exception of some spacecraft, ever bit of matter which existed a million years ago is still here.

Matter can be neither created nor destroyed.
Matter can be transformed but not eliminated.
No trash disposal company I have ever heard of shoots trash, garbage, refuse and recyclables into the sun.

WHAT AN IDIOT STATEMENT!

[RJL]

"We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used," said Collins... Huh?

And just how does this idiot propose that we replace the resources we have supposedly "used"?

It's going to take her a long time on government pay to replace the resources used to send her up in the Shuttle.