"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.
Elections MATTER.
America chose its own destruction, not SPACE.
America chose slavery of its children for the 57 States of
the undocumented Imam Barak Hussein, and not SCIENCE.
The Imam has said NASA must die in the desert
teaching Moslem how to blow up Western technology in orbit,
and the money? well, that is for more Mosques.
I see no hope for American space travel unless it comes from the private sector.
On a hot and humid July night so long ago, me and my brother sat with my mom and watched a grainy picture on an old B&W tv that was ready to give up the ghost.
We had all been praying for days.
And we saw the pictures of what looked like a ladder and saw the poofed up legs as they jumped down and heard the words “That’s one small step...”
Do not blame NASA.
The embarrassing part is that TWO GENERATIONS have gone by and they are MORE WORRIED ABOUT SOME DAMN SNAIL SOMEWHERE or MORE WORRIED ABOUT GETTING SOME REBATE FOR THEIR REFRIGERATOR or (fill in the blank!!!!!!! THERE ARE TEN THOUSAND THINGS THAT COULD GO HERE) than they are interested in seeing someone back on the moon.
I am so privileged to have watched it.
And I weep for those who will never see it.
But I guess there are alot of things America will never see again...
If people DO NOT DEMAND it, it’s not going to happen.
Neil it’s not the US Space program which is the problem.
It is your comrade fellow democrat, Obama.
Put down the koolaid, and open your eyes.
SpaceX has multiple new CHEAP rockets. Blue Origin has one coming. Likewise, we have multiple human rated vehicles on the way (Spacex, Blue Origin, SNC and Boeing).
Then you add all sorts of new capabilities. Multiple companies working on private space stations (Bigelow Aerospace and IDC Dover), and sub-orbital launchers (Scaled, Blue Origin, Xcor, etc).
Our biggest problem is that members of Congress are trying hard to keep NASA as their personal jobs program. For that, you can blame Shelby(R), Hatch(R), Hutchinson(R), Nelson(D), and a host of others.
What is needed is the neutering of these congressmen/senators who would rather NASA devote massive taxpayer resources to building a massive unneeded rocket, rather than allowing American industry to get us back into space.
We don’t have the money for space anymore. Too many hungry mouths to feed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzCsDVfPQqk