We need to roll NASA into the military, and dedicate it to setting up bases on the Moon and Mars. It seems to me that satellite launching can best be done by private companies, and getting NASA out of the business will accelerate private space exploration.
What good is NASA anyway? There is nothing out there except empty space and some rocks. Let us feed the hungry and help them multiply first. Soy-lent! Soy-lent!
The "global warming" research funding is money poured down a rathole and should be killed off completely.
If nasa knew how to allocate its recourses, 16B would be WAY more than enough. NASA is getting on my nerves.. all this whining is pathetic.
2014 before we have a manned moon mission? Hell, China will own the moon by then.
Let's get serious, NASA
I am trying to continue liking NASA, but, BOY!!, are they making it hard - especially under O'Keafe. I would rather see more money spent to maintain the Hubble and less on the Shuttle and the ISS. Both have been a colossal waste of time and money that have done little to advance our knowledge of the galaxy, the universe or anything more than 300 miles from the earth's surface.
NASA should be looking over its collective shoulder with private development starting to nip at its heels. Chances are that people like Sir Richard Branson at Virgin Air and similar innovators will surpass anything that NASA will do in developing the moon or other planets to support human habitation. If O'Keafe and NASA were around when the US was still being settled, we would still be launching boats across the Mississippi to be sure it was safe before allowing settlers to cross. The funny thing is that, at the rate that NASA is going, Richard Branson will be there to greet the next NASA astronaut(s) to land on the moon. He will invite the astonauts to his quarters, serve them drinks, dinner and go for a refreshing dip in his pool.
Afterward, the astronauts will, reluctantly, return to their cramped capsule and face a meal of dehydrated "tastes-like-crap" before snuggling down to sleep on a narrow, uncomfortable "couch" that also serves as their chair during spaceflight. Branson, will settle down in a king size bed with two blondes and a large dog.
Me? I'll take Branson's version of spaceflight to NASA's.
Let's get it on and stop fiddling around with their overpriced, dangerous space trucks (Shuttle) and their (barely) flying habittrail for humans and get back to the business of exploring the stars.