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Neil Armstrong says US Space Program 'Embarrassing'
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| September 22, 2011
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Posted on 09/22/2011 9:06:34 PM PDT by lbryce
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"Get the shuttle out of the garage down there at Kennedy (Space Center), crank up the motors and put it back in service," said Eugene Cernan, who commanded the Apollo 17 flight and was the last man to walk on the Moon in 1972. "You want a launch vehicle today that will service the ISS? We've got it sitting down there. So before we put it in a museum, let's make use of it. It's in the prime of its life, how could we just put it away?"
It is with grave sorrow, regret we all mourn the US space program, its days of incredible national pride, glory as much for the exhiliaration, anticipation of dreams in space never fulfilled coming to fruition.
No greater admired a figure as Neil Armstrong, elder statesman of the US space program, first man to walk on the moon, has the authority, credibility to make the statement that the US space program is embarrassing to the US, embarrassing to all Americans, fundamentally, embarrassing to the American hero, whose very name, legacy in the realm of space travel, lunar landing has come to be known as one and the same.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:06:42 PM PDT
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
The ISS is close to being abandoned apparently. There is a European supply pod in Fr Guiana where they launch from but it apparently won’t be ready until January or so.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:11:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: lbryce
It’s embarrassing because there’s no goal. Where are we going? What are we doing?
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:11:59 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: lbryce
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:14:18 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: lbryce
The Administration is only pursuing unproductive and partisan government programs. NASA eggheads need not apply.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:15:43 PM PDT
by
oyez
( America is being pimped.)
To: lbryce
Neil Armstrong says US Space Program 'Embarrassing'Obama's legacy.
To: lbryce
It is with grave sorrow, regret we all mourn the US space program, its days of incredible national pride, glory as much for the exhiliaration, anticipation of dreams in space never fulfilled coming to fruition.
Well, Obama has targeted all sources of national pride for destruction. We cannot have the United States thinking that it is special, unique, or exceptional, dontcha know.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:21:51 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:22:37 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: dragonblustar
Thank heaven he has spoken out. We were the best space faring nation now we are now the worst!
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:23:43 PM PDT
by
Empireoftheatom48
(Tag line under construction, please mind the gap!!)
To: DManA
Returning to the moon as was called for in Constellation program would have been a most challenging, worthy space project. It would have fulfilled all the neccessary requirements appealing to the scientific community, the curiosity, interest of the public to keep it going for decades to come, but the project was not permitted to ever get off the launch pad.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:24:59 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(BHO:Satan's Evil Twin)
To: dragonblustar
Irwin is gone.
Shephard is gone.
Conrad is gone.
9 remain
The youngest is Duke who was born in 1935, and he’s 75.
Soon we won’t have anyone who remembers what it was like to walk on the moon.
The youngest boomers in 1960 are now older than Shephard was when he flew. Extend it another 5 years and the youngest boomer will soon be older than Shephard.
What have the boomers been doing for the last 40 years? It will be 40 years ago that someone once set foot on the moon.
I think it’s telling that the generation that had no presidents, put 12 men on the moon, and the generation that has spent the last 20 years in power has put nobody on the moon.
It’s not just Obama. We’ve been taking steps backwards and backwards. Is it a coincidence that in 1972, abortion was legalized, and the last moon landing took place?
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:26:48 PM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(Honkeys for Herman! “10 percent is enough for God; 9 percent is enough for government")
To: GeronL
ISS is not close to being abandoned, there were fears after the unmanned Soyuz mishap. That has likely been resolved.
To: lbryce
Embarrassing?
Go figure.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:29:42 PM PDT
by
newheart
(When does policy become treason?)
To: Names Ash Housewares
The last Soyuz supply mission failed. Another is not ready.
They may have to “evacuate” the station, do you like that word better?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/08/nasa-space-station-soyuz.html
Will the International Space Station actually be abandoned this fall after $100 billion and 10 years?
That’s one of the questions being pondered by NASA and Russian space experts following last week’s failure of an unmanned Russian cargo rocket. The U.S. fleet of space shuttles is retired and the Obama administration has no American alternative coming online for years
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:35:32 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: oyez
The Administration is only pursuing unproductive and partisan government programs. NASA eggheads need not apply. --------------------------
'Embarrassing'
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:39:03 PM PDT
by
BobP
(The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
To: lbryce
I remember Gene Cernan was told my President Nixon that “he would be the last man to walk on the Moon in the 20th Century.”
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:39:47 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: lbryce
I was a tyke when during a shopping trip with my mom some lady asked my mother if I could try some new product. Well it turned out to be tang.
I was a test subject for NASA. True story.
You Suck ubama.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:47:08 PM PDT
by
longfellow
(Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
To: lbryce
So did we bring anything back from the moon other than rocks? What about Mars? I love the Mars rovers but please...we need to have a *financial* reason for pumping billions into the space program.
To: lbryce
Well if NASA doesn't lift the muzzies' self esteem out of the camel dung, who will?
sarc/
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:51:39 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Barry gives them $535 million and they take "the fifth" when asked where it went.)
To: BenKenobi
Soon we wont have anyone who remembers what it was like to walk on the moon.
They are really in a minority of a minority, probably the smallest minority on Earth, people who walked on the Moon There were only 12 as you pointed out, 9 of them still living and the youngest is 75. I even bought the Buzz Aldrin edition of the Grundig G6 Aviator shortwave radio since I'm a real spacehead and mixing that with my radio hobby. There is an entire generation of adults and more that have NEVER seen a man walk on the Moon. I remember watching the missions even though I was very young, I was 3 when Armstrong landed on the Moon but I remember it vividly. I'm 45 now. I even got into debates with someone who thought the landings were fake "because 1969 technology could not do it" and he added "look at the cars they had then."
Personally, if we had the rocket thrust given to us, we could have done the Moon landings with 1930's if we were willing to take a few risks or even 1900/1910 tech if we left out a radio, but that "what-if" is for another debate.
Still though, IIRC, the computers in the command and lunar modules had like 4K of RAM and 36K ROM, more or less the power of the first personal computers that came out in the mid to late 1970's. Today's cars have more computer power but yet, we went to the Moon with much less.
I try to ask a question online during the debates about what each candidate would do to bring back manned space exploration.
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posted on
09/22/2011 9:52:50 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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