Buzz Aldrin to be star witness at Ted Cruz space hearings

Examiner ^ | February 20, 2015

[SoConPubbie]

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[SoConPubbie]

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[Carpe Cerevisi]

[Awgie]

Ted is an honorable powerful voice for reclaiming America. I am happy to support him in all his endeavors.

[PROCON]

Good on Sen. Cruz; Buzz Aldrin is a true American patriot, his testimony will have a tremendous impact.

[cripplecreek]

From what I’ve heard, Cruz has the right goal in mind.

Stop the earth sciences from space and get back to space exploration or lose more funding.

[struggle]

We could be on the moon in a decade, again, and this time to stay - if someone just tried.

[relictele]

future of the American space program

Er, which program is that? Right now we have an Expensive Hitch Hiker Program Except For The Odd Satellite

Massive respect for Aldrin and NASA in the 60s but pig-sick of lefties banging on about 'The moon landings prove that government can and should do good things.'

NASA have nobody to blame but themselves with their embarrassing and expensive make-work shuttle missions that became a cul-de-sac financially and scientifically.

'Muslim outreach' and the rest of the PC barnacles attached to NASA are too bizarre for rational discussion but they must be scraped away regardless.

[nikos1121]

Why not Neil Armstrong?

[cripplecreek]

Neil isn’t saying much of anything these days.

[WayneS]

The hearings need a new name.

[wattsgnu]

He’s dead, Jim

[PROCON]

Neil Armstrong

Astronaut

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Wikipedia

Born: August 5, 1930, Auglaize County, OH

Died: August 25, 2012, Cincinnati, OH

[spokeshave]

Maybe he can shine some light (no pun intended) on why the Sun's magnetic field is declining...so less sunspots are formed ....leading to global cooling.

My theory (FWIW) is that the Suns magnetic field declines because of a failed attempt to magnetize Obama's moral compass.

[Gaffer]

NASA will never have any credibility with me until they do two things: 1)Fire James Hansen for his AGW activities, and 2) disavow the need to make “Muslims feel better about their contributions to science and technology.”

[tanknetter]

Actually, we have three different manned launch systems in development right now. NASA’s Orion, which is supposed to be for long-range missions, and the two commercial ventures for getting into LEO (Boeing and SpaceX).

It further wouldn’t surprise me if there was a black world fourth minishuttle capability based on something along the lines of the DreamCatcher (or upgrade of the proposed 1960’s Dynasoar vehicle).

[nikos1121]

Then how about Charles Lindburgh or Eddie Rickenbacker or better yet, how can you have a hearing without having Jimmie Doolittle there? I mean come on, Man?!!!

[nikos1121]

Maybe this was a sick joke, but I was curious to see if any body knew he was deceased, and only a few people did apparently.

[outofsalt]

I forget which astronaut said, when asked how he felt about the trajectory of NASA’s mission, that he had hoped we’d be on Mars by now but instead we have facebook.

[PROCON]

I know Charlie Lindburgh landed on the moon, but I heard Doolittle was holding out for Shelia Jackson Lee’s Mars landing.