Posted on 02/06/2010 12:42:42 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares
This stupid plan is like trying to bring yourself out of impending bankruptcy by not buying new windshield wipers.
in your own opinion because your original comment was subjective, not objective.
Following such path, wouldn’t be the Chinese and Indians far more cheaper than anything America can build to reach Low Earth Orbit?
Following Obama’s administration, why not subcontrat everything with Chinese and Indians and use NASA to “I don’t know yet”?
I saw Gene Cernan (last man to walk on the moon) interviewed a couple of days ago. He said almost the same thing. Right at the end of the segment when the reporter and he were exchanging pleasantries Cernan added that the country must change course if we are to survive, or something to that effect. He said we cannot abandon the frontiers of science and expect to remain a world power.
I think NASA should use all of its appropriation to give anyone who wants one of those weightless parabola flights. Let’s be honest. Effing around in microgravity is all anyone really wants-including the astronauts. I know they go up in space and fix stuff, but that stuff gets sent up already broken. I’d love one of those flights after a long week at the office. Like a massage.
you must be a dem
The Shuttle has been Nasa’s path to nowhere for the last 25 years. We should have returned to the Moon long ago and set out for Mars already.
LOL! No, I support free market capitalism which is why I believe private enterprise can do near space cheaper and better than NASA. You would be the Dem in this scenario because you support throwing more money at a bloated federal bureaucracy.
Perhaps eventually but how many commercial airliners do they make now and how long has that industry been around?
lol you are funny
Nope, I’m accurate. Why do so many supposed conservatives support NASA? Frankly, I can’t understand it.
Since Apollo wound down the only thing the manned program has accomplished is proving to the nth degree that we can orbit the earth. What has that accomplished? Not a thing. No science, no new technology, no new frontiers. The latest iteration of the astronaut welfare program would have us building rockets based on outdated technology which would never go to the moon, never go to Mars and never accomplish any real science. Nothing more than a govt jobs program, no different really than new highway projects that don’t need to be built.
On the other hand, if you could be bothered to research it, private industry is on the threshold of entering space in a very big way. Google Bigelow aerospace, Space-X, VASIMR, Orbital Sciences and many more. That’s where the future is, not some bloated over the hill govt run agency.
There is NO compelling commercial business plan / reason for us to go to space. never has been so your premise of commercial space is just that an illusion. Talk about blotted bureaucracy look at the commercial space business now. My, my charity begins at home with every defense contractor in the US on dole for ‘commercial business’.If the fed doesn’t fund it and control it, it wont happen. So where exactly are going to get this money from? So your just anti NASA. You must work in the space business. Other wise you would want all of it shut down if your a free market kinda guy.
no even close to accurate.. you must work for one of them.
You mean to tell me that in a $3.8 trillion budget, you can find $3 billion for NASA? That amounts to a math error on a spreadsheet somewhere!
I thought we could have a discussion here but I can see I’m dealing with a child. Have a nice day.
Nothing like a ride on the Vomit Comet
had a few flights myself during my AF days...albeit on an old C-131
By the time that occurs, he will have retired and the only chance he would have had to get to space would be by speaking Russian or Chinese.
NASA cannot work on projects directly for defense. That is the purview of the military.
I agree those are the future, Space-X, Bigelow and the like. But what to do till then? It’ll be 10 to 15 years before these companies develop heavy launch manrated rockets/human carrying capability. And what till then? Nothing? That’s Obama’s budget. And is the government their only customer? How’s that for risk tolerance?
Develop both parallel. Seed companies. But only the government can take the risk to for a trip to Mars. It just ain’t economically sound for private industry.
Those who say otherwise are ignorant of both history and human nature...
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