Trump demands NASA stop wasting money on the international space station

American Thinker ^ | 05/21/2018 | Ed Straker

[Uncle Sham]

N.A.S.A. should stand for Never Another Space Attempt. They are nothing but a fanciful money laundering machine who have never been to the moon and can no longer look us in the eye with their lies and BS.

[Verginius Rufus]

According to a talk I heard once by somebody who had worked for NASA, research done at the space station has led to a number of valuable inventions. I don't know how accurate that is.

Reportedly a secret NASA report found that on two occasions the astronauts being sent to the space station were drunk at the time of liftoff. I suppose that's one way of coping with anxiety. And I would assume that they had time to sober up before they actually docked with the space station. Of course if they were joining Russians at the space station, maybe it wouldn't matter.

[treetopsandroofs]

Once Gatorade discovered the color red, it got good...

[UCANSEE2]

The ISS is nothing more than a zero gravity laboratory. It’s parked in a useless orbit allowing it to be accessed by as many countries as possible, but itself cannot access the rest of the solar system. It only has one window for viewing space. What we need is a base on the moon that could at least be used as a staging area for missions to the other planets and asteroids.

Strap some rockets to it and send it into orbit around the moon.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

The space station has contributed to Medicine, Telecommunications, Materials development, Weather on earth as well as solar dynamics.

Interesting.

What technologies were developed and manufactured in space that we use here on Earth?

[bert]

Very narrow minded comment

Learning is the reason

Life in the rut can be lived in relative ignorance

[Fhios]

Even though there is some truth and Budgets do need to be adhered too, I find the article disagreeable.

IMHO the engineering and complexity and execution alone is more than enough to build it.

We all dream of a colonized moon, asteroid mining and space station on both ends. All of those are elephants that have to be eaten, and the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.

[mmercier0921]

Rent the space, a million a cubic foot/day. Private companies would stampeed for the space, other companies would pop up like fleas to deliver people and material.

Send the cash to treasury, fund NASA as a separate line, let them launch microbots to the least likely places in the universe to discover everything of no value.

Crystals and metals produced in 0g are still classified for a reason. We have the people and the technology... only thing stopping them dead is... government.

[Political Junkie Too]

What we need is a base on the moon that could at least be used as a staging area for missions to the other planets and asteroids.

Can the ISS be hauled to the moon and put into a lunar orbit to support development of a lunar base? We'd need to develop a space tug ship that can slowly push it out to the moon, but why not?

After all, getting it into space in the first place was the hard part. Why lose the investment now? Let it serve as a space port over the moon for lunar base construction.

-PJ

[Telepathic Intruder]

We don’t own the entire ISS. By treaty it belongs to several different countries, including the U.S. and Russia. I have no idea if it can be “hauled”, or rather pushed into a lunar orbit. It’s nearing the end of its projected life anyway.

[miliantnutcase]

Agreed. As conservatives we are better than to trash something that isn't understood. The space program brought us countless advances we take for granted. They see articles where a NASA scientist pushes global warming and they think everyone there only shills on that. NASA like any government agency is filled with it's share of worthless bureaucrats but it just needs real executive leadership. NASA is being forced to compete and off-load it's work to private firms which is a healthy change. Obama drastically cut NASA and then changed it's research priority from getting to Mars to . If we get beat to Mars by China or another country set to weaponize space we will be in real trouble.

[tennmountainman]

Spend the money on cheaper planetary missions.

[unlearner]

Wait a second. You left off the discovery of how to make the Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System.

[minnesota_bound]

I bet you guys and gals and Trump ancestors would stop development of the wheel or fire : )

Benjamin Franklin quote:
When asked what good a new invention was:
What good is a newborn baby?

[minnesota_bound]

#33 Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Human Waste ‘Distribution’ System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJgXPxTzRg

[A Cyrenian]

Do you think the space station is a gun free zone?

[Sequoyah101]

Outstanding isn’t it? Great to have a reasonable rational adult in the white house!

[Bommer]

1903 -Wright brothers first flight, 1969 - Man lands on the moon - total 63 years 1975-2018 - Skylab and the Space shuttle and international space station 43 years.

Spent more money in the last 43 years for little. Got more of a return from unmanned Hubble telescopes and deep space probes. All we really have to show for it was "Diversity 1sts! First black guy in space! First chick to pilot a space shuttle! In the evolution for conquest of space, this doesn't move the ball! Trump is right. No bucks for no Buck Rogers! We should go back to the moon (Mars is a worthless endeavor)

[Colinsky]

The purpose of the International Space Station was to give the Space Shuttle a destination.

The purpose of the Space Shuttle was to go to the Space Station.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Very narrow minded comment

Learning is the reason

Life in the rut can be lived in relative ignorance

Fair enough. If you're so interested in learning about space, do it on your nickel, not mine.

The Wright Brothers didn't take a dime of government money yet they invented the airplane and changed the world.