[ml/nj]

Protection of the US from possible future orbital attack.

Give me a break!

How are these people, who will be in orbit for something like a week, going to protect us from a future orbital attack? They couldn't even be reasonably be expected to prevent an attack while they are in orbit.

I guess maybe you like the country music wakeups, but NASA is just another huge government boondogle.

ML/NJ

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘How are these people, who will be in orbit for something like a week, going to protect us from a future orbital attack? ‘

The same way that the flight of the Wright brothers eventually made it possible to drop bombs on Japan. As part of a multiple decades long research and development project.

[KevinDavis]

Then I guess you think the Air Force is unconstitutional..

[buccaneer81]

How are these people, who will be in orbit for something like a week, going to protect us from a future orbital attack? They couldn't even be reasonably be expected to prevent an attack while they are in orbit.

It's called research.

[buccaneer81]

NASA is just another huge government boondogle.

Sorry that you drank the liberal Kool-Aid. At less than one half of one percent of the federal budget, NASA has returned far more than that in R&D, spinoffs and basic scientific knowledge. The liberals hijacked it in the '90s for "Earth studies," and we all know what this gang of Commies has done to it.

Space is a potential theater of war. We need a presence and expertise. If I had my way, NASA would be turned over to either the USAF or USN, and private space ventures would be given tax breaks to get them into a competitive environment.

[onedoug]

I think we took a Russian satellite out of orbit once.

Shhh....