Hey, this means administration will revive the Apollo Program!!! Oh wait, I forgot....
An hour later they’ll just have to send it again...................
Yeah, but does China’s space program have good Islamists relations and promotions?
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In the 80’s, when I was a bright-eyed young Zoomie, America was talking about what we were going to build on the Moon, and when the first human was going to walk on Mars, within our lifetimes.
Now we are talking about how much longer we can print unbacked money to keep the EBT cards working, to prevent the Gimme Dat’s from rioting, and to keep them voting Democrat.
It is a sad fall we have witnessed, and it is OUR FAULT, folks.
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Oh, and if you are worried about china cashing in all of the 1.3 trillion dollars in treasury bonds they hold, don't worry, because they have ALL of the manufacturing facilities that the stupid Americans moved to china as collateral. Say goodbye to all of those iphones, and pretty much all of the other consumer products you currently use, including all of the tech goodies.
Says who? I would argue our space program is more robust than ever.
Beijing's ambitious program takes another leap forward toward an eventual return of man to the moon.
Whoopee! They're doing what we did 45 years ago with much more primitive technology.
Is there anyone here who honestly thinks that NASA can build their next generation space capsule and next generation heavy lift rocket in anything close to the schedule and budget they've been talking about? I sure don't. We have a vibrant and potentially thriving private sector space program that we can take advantage of, if we'd only let it. They can get us back to the ISS or the moon or anywhere else in a fraction of the time or cost that NASA would require. But instead of giving them their lead we have Shellby, Brooks, and Coffman doing everything in their power to derail the company. And why? Pork. NASA builds their crap in Alabama so these three want to make sure that we overpay for the rockets and wait on deadlines. So they do their best to block private business.
So watch China go back to the moon and when they do, remind yourself that it's Congress preventing us from doing the same and not lack of ability or know-how.
I wonder if when China has established a moon colony if we can buy a ticket to escape the ever socialist Earth...
It is well documented that Clinton and the Democrats took illegal campaign money from groups and individuals tied directly to the Chinese People’s Republican Army. It is therefore not surprising that in January 1998 Clinton went against the advice of then-Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Pentagon experts by lifting long-standing restrictions against the export of American satellites to China for launch on Chinese rockets.
Not only did he move control over such decisions from the more security-focused State Department to the Commerce Department, but he intervened in a Justice Department investigation of Loral Space & Communications, retroactively enabling Loral to sell critical missile technology to the Chinese. Interestingly enough, Clinton’s decision was made at the request of Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, whose earlier $1.3 million campaign donation made him the single biggest contributor to the Democratic election effort.
The result, as stated eloquently by syndicated columnist Linda Bowles, was that “the Democrats got money from satellite companies and from Chinese communists; China got supercomputors, advanced production equipment and missile technology; Loral got its satellites launched at bargain basement prices . . . and the transfer of sensitive missile technology gave China [for the first time] the capability of depositing bombs on American cities.”
Incidentally, Loral ultimately failed to benefit from this permanent injury to America’s security interests: in July 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, and in order to raise cash was forced to sell its most profitable business – a fleet of communications satellites orbiting over North America.
Can China send Obama to the Moon while US Citizens watches?
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