A Generation Without a Moon Walk (The technology is no longer available to put a man on the moon)

Human Events ^ | 7/20/2009 | Joseph A. Rehyansky

[hinckley buzzard]

Have you seen the photos of the Apollo missions controls room? Full of white guys with crew cuts

Not only that, but they smoked. This was faithfully represented on the movie "Apollo 13" which was a very good movie, and was buried by the critics because it displayed reality for what it was.

[pnh102]

Nothing to admire about those country’s systems.

I certainly have no admiration for the government of the old USSR or China. But the fact remains that more people in those countries, as well as in India, are more interested in learning the types of hard science, math and engineering that would be needed to make a Moon or Mars mission possible.

Most college students in the USA don't jump into these subjects. Most try to skate by on easy majors that are absolutely useless in any respect, especially when it comes to things like science, math and engineering.

If community organizers, history majors, psychology majors, basketweavers, communications majors and the like could take us to Mars, we would have pasted US flags all over the entire known universe by now.

[Billthedrill]

During one of his “Jaywalking” bits on "The Tonight Show," Jay Leno asked a young woman if she knew the name of the first man to walk on the moon. “Armstrong?” she answered tentatively.

Leno said, “Good. What’s his first name?” She replied: “Louis!”

Sheesh. What a maroon. It was "Lance."

There is one reason and one alone that men and women are not currently on both the Moon and Mars, and that is that the governments of the earth have named themselves in charge of the activity. It passes veto power to every jackass who thinks he or she knows a better use for the money or who starts bleating "we have to make sure we don't" contaminate, despoil, ruin, deface, etc, etc, as if "don't do anything because you might do something wrong" were the prime criterion of human activity.

You want a base on the Moon? Junk the rules and make a public statement - "Jack, if it's up there and you can get it, you can keep the money." And stand back. That is all it will take.