As a person who defended the expenditure of tax dollars for NASA for around thirty years, I had to accept reality around ten years ago.
I don't have much to say about this budget mess. I hear a lot of talk about the best and the brightest, but I'll be damned if I can see anything so remarkable about NASA's last 35 years. Oh sure, NASA has had it's flashes in the pan. Along with others I apprediated a number of achievements.
The question is, where are we today, and how in the sam hell did we wind up in this dire mess?
Having failed to answer for their criminal negligence in the past, I don't have much use for NASA any longer. We basicly have a crap shoot of a launch system. After lying to the public for months about improved systems, the last launch suffered from the same problem the ill fated shuttle did.
One thing I will say in NASA's favor that is in the current news, I'm glad it's governor gave the next shuttle crew a two month reprieve. Still it would have been better and a lot more humane if they'd have commuted their sentences to life on earth, or until a safe lauch vehicle was developed.
Throw 25% of the NASA budget at private enterprise groups and we'll have a safe profitable lauch system within five years. Nice knowing you NASA.
Evos have taken over NASA.
We’re not exploring space; we’re looking for the “Origins of Life.”
http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/index1.html
We’re spending billions of dollars to support the leading evolutionist’s pet projects.
“To explore the Universe and search for life.
NASA is a multi-billion dollar feeding frenzy.
I guess some of these boys will have to get a real job.