We Stopped Dreaming

YouTube/LiveLeak ^ | Mar 10, 2012 | Neil deGrasse Tyson/NA

[prisoner6]

This is for everyone who doesn't understand why NASA was created and why so many people think it is imperative to continue supporting them. All credit for this video goes to Scrunchthethird.

Not sure what to make of this. The Daily Show in the credits.

Needs fact checking. Could it be true that the bank bail out is greater than the entire 50 year NASA budget?

[Rooivalk]

NASA fully embraced Affirmative Action and is full of minorities that are doing little except drinking coffee and reading web pages. They are not the best and brightest at all and will not be going back to space anytime soon without Russian help. The agency should be dissolved, it is a 100% loss now.

People like you with your loser mentality make my @ss tired. I worked on the Apollo program at North American aviation right out of high school.

Oh and by the way I am a Black American

We can accomplish ANYTHING we want to as Americans. Our crew on the floor was racially mixed, but we were not looking at color.

What was important then was beating the Russians and producing the best spacecraft we could for a crew that was going to risk their lives on the work product we produced.

We worked three shifts and we got it done. I was BTW, always oriented towards dreaming about space. This was back in the day of Sputnik and IGY where a young boy's dreams were about flying in space.

Your whining here in your post is symptomatic of an America that has surrendered the fight and has decided to roll over and play dead.

I reject your arguments that NASA died because of as you put it,"Affirmative Action". If anything it was the actions of Richard M Nixon and his gutting of the space program by killing further missions to the moon after Apollo 17.

All we need is a vision for space. And believe me pal the dream is still alive. I am doing all that I can to keep it alive

[Rooivalk]

Well said!