Well it’s the change they voted for.
With the new mooslimb outreach programs and projects to prove man is causing global warming, there are huge opportunities at NASA. Unfortunately, none of them involve aeronautics or space flight.
“We’re not adrift,” he said. “And the vision is not gone. And we have a plan. We have a very sound plan.”- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
Hey Charlie, maybe you should let us everyday workers know what the plan is. Because from our view, all we see is layoffs and project mismanagement by power hungry managers.
Our morale can’t be low. We have no morale to be low. We have thousands of highly skilled engineers just sitting around wanting to work.
GIVE US A MISSION!!!!
NASA has been declining since LBJ and Nixon. The good news is the very successful unmanned program, and private companies that will be developing manned rockets and space stations.
The Space Shuttle is outdated equipment and technology and ending the program was a good idea.
Does it still take fifty people to change a light bulb at NASA???
Last one to leave Brevard County turn out the lights!
NASA will be able to devote more resources to help James Hansen predict immediate CAGW.
You’ll notice - everything the governments get involved with are inundated by lawyers, squeezing out the scientists and engineers who won’t put up with their political games. The ones that stay under the lawyers control ARE the B-Team!
I believe Challenger was a direct result of those political managers. RIP.
Not many of Eric Holder’s people are aeronautical engineers, or engineers of any kind, therefore NASA is of no use to Eric Holder’s people, and must be destroyed.
A lot of us miss the old glory days, but with the moon reached and the ultra high maintenance shuttle done to death, and hard times upon all, what’s left for NASA? A handful of unmanned probes? I’ve heard of projects to try to clean up the space junk orbiting the earth.
I never did understand what Obama even ostensibly intended by this NASA-Muslim outreach. Do they wish to put sacred stones in orbit, or somefin?
A nation can have a space program or a welfare society, but it can’t have both.
You just don't turn engineering back on after you turn it off. Engineering isn't a step function. Many processes in high tech cannot be put on a drawing or documented. Many times they remain in the brains of people that are being laid off.
In your lifetime you will probably never see a U.S. launched manned vehicle again. No American exceptionalism. I think that is what motivates Obummer.
No commercial company is going to do this. The liability insurance would put them out of business before the first launch.
There is no need to fear, the decline is already fully accomplished.
They need to shift gears. Reduce the manned flight operation to a skeleton crew. Keep a crew of a few young astronauts who you send into space every 5 years or so to keep their skills up.
The rest of the program ought to be robotic. Send robots to the moon to develop infrastructure for an eventual return to the moon by men. Build a moon base and fabrication facilities.
That approach would also have the advantage of stimulating our nascent robotics industry.
Yes, NASA needs to rethink its mission, and some stuff needs to go to the private sector - notably the routine stuff. However, I see NASA’s new mission going in a bad direction.
That would be the direction of navel gazing, and the never ending heavy head trip, lead by non-engineering/non-science types. I do not consider the AGW people to be among the science types, since the AGW’s have gone Lysenko on us. No exploration will get done, no data gathering since that may challenge the dogma of James Hansen spewing that humanity is a virus infecting Earth Mother Goddess Gaia.
Hansen is no scientist, he is now a priest of the AGW cult.
Space is silly. Billions of Muslims need attention and THAT’S the job of NASA.
Ought to be a moon mission /colony and a Mars manned mission but Obama hates American greatness and doesn’t want us striving for anything that makes us lead...that’s the bottom line...he hates us.