Posted on 09/22/2011 9:06:34 PM PDT by lbryce
He fails to decry Obama, as the one statement he makes about Obama's actions lacks any kind of outcry directed at him.
I'd like to see what Obama has actually done to support his supposed long off goals. Does anyone know?
good point, but do the Russians have another Progress (which I am sure NASA is paying for at this point) ready?
It takes guts. It takes dedication and first and foremost, it takes sacrifice.
Something that I haven’t seen in a long time. I’m not old enough to remember the manned landings. For me the ‘dreams’ of my generation was the Voyager probe. Amazing to be sure, but depressing to think that the best manned flight memories are of Challenger and Columbia. Low earth orbit is the farthest that man has gone in my life, and that’s, frankly pathetic.
SpaceX is going to dock with the ISS November 30th of 2011.
So really, NASA is irrelevant. We’ve got a space company that can already do everything that’s needed.
Now, it’s just a matter of getting things stepped up to go to the Moon again.
Remember that “reset” button Hillary Obama gave to the Russians?
That was to make up for the embarrassment caused to the poor Bolsheviks after we won the space race, and subsequently the cold war.
Theres no better way than to atone than to freeze our space program.
This is how B.O. is not “weaponizing” space.
Or maybe this is just an episode of Outer Limits.
I’d like to see the private sector get to the moon before the Chinese.
The European “ATV” or “Automated Transfer Vehicle”
the third ATV is set to launch in Feb of 2012. It is apparently sitting in French Guiana where the ESA launch site is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Transfer_Vehicle
Each ATV weighs 20.7 tonnes at launch and has a cargo capacity of 8 tonnes:[3]
1,500 kilograms (3,300 lb) to 5,500 kilograms (12,000 lb) of dry cargo (re-supply goods, scientific payload, etc.),
Up to 840 kilograms (1,900 lb) of water,
Up to 100 kilograms (220 lb) of gas (nitrogen, oxygen, air), with up to two gases per flight,
Up to 4,700 kilograms (10,000 lb) of propellant for the re-boost maneuver and refueling the station.
If I understand you correctly, it seems you have a rather provincial perspective on the way you look at the world. Retrieving 'moon rocks' was hardly the raison d'etre for landing on the moon. There were much bigger issues to why we made the effort, most of which can not be quantified by any *financial* justification you seem to think is the only point of it all.
Armstrong always was the master of understatement.
And he was.
But it's the 21st Century, and with current plans and abilities, or lack thereof, it will be half over before someone does it again. He'll probably be Chinese, maybe with luck, Indian.
We went to the Moon to hunt for the mysterious black monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Sure is.
I OTOH remember watching that first landing mission. I saw the first step off the lander's ladder at my wife's grandparents' farm.
I also remember watching the lift off from the moon during the Apollo 15 mission. That was in the "day room" at AF ROTC field training at Vandenberg AFB, CA.
Then there was Apollo 9, with the reading from Genesis from Lunar Orbit on Christmas Eve. Watched that one from my basement, during a lull in our Christmas Eve festivities. The only holiday we celebrated with my Dad's family. I remember my Uncle Jim, (Dad's brother in law) being as fascinated as I was. He was of the pre-WWII generation. Too Old for WWII, too young for WWI.
So, with those memories, my take on the situation, and the current space program is that it makes me sick to my stomach.
He will have run out of places to go on vacation on Earth by then.
We might have, if we'd also had that Hilton station in orbit, with the Pan Am shuttle to take us there. It's 10 years after 2001.
I want my dammed ride to the station!
I've been waiting for it since 1968. How the hell am I supposed to get my ashes spread into orbit, which was my backup plan if the commercial shuttle wasn't ready before I got too old to fly on it.
What does any of that have to do with NASA’s main objective: reaching out to Muslims?
Well, if NASA is indeed embarrassing as Niel Armstrong contends, it would then serve as the perfect bureacracy in which to reach out to Muslims who are nothing if not embarrassing.
Between 1969 and 1972 the USA sent six missions to the moon. Then the project ws scrapped, and the rest is - or will be - history.
"Where there is no vision, the people perish" [Proverbs xxix:18] as I'm sure all good Freepers know.
Notice how the writer feels it necessary to identify Neil Armstrong as the first astronaut to walk on the Moon? Speaks volumes.
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