Obama’s Space Shuttle funeral dirge a show for all to see

Canada Free Press ^ | April 29, 2012 | Judi McLeod

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Those lucky enough to still be here to look back at history post Barack Obama will recognize the last sight-piggyback funeral dirge of the once noble Space Shuttle as the Obama Regime’s defining moment.

Were an artist to paint a picture of a small boy looking at up at his flying kite as the space shuttle passed over Manhattan yesterday, no portrait of the story of America’s deliberate ruin at the hands of a single politician could ever come closer to the truth.

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Few will remember that it was on the fullest moon of the year last January when NASA scientists were told they wouldn’t be able to visit any longer and that in his new budget, President Obama planned to eliminate the space program’s manned moon missions.

Now that it’s all over, NASA is left behind with its glory days fast fading as the shill to entice companies to build private spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the space station after the space shuttle retires.

In Obama’s Ban Free Market world, how many volunteer entrepreneurs will build private spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the NASA-abandoned space station?

The American moon mission was America’s finest moment in time, signaling to the world not just proof of American ingenuity but keeping aflame man’s dream to reach the moon.

In this final chapter, Obama didn’t just gut the space program’s manned moon missions, he flew proof of America’s dead dream over Washington and New York landmarks.

The American astronaut and the concept of space shuttles have been relegated almost overnight to the obscurity of museum relics.

Every child who flies a kite with big dreams of someday reaching the moon will look to the space missions of other nations now and not their own.

[theBuckwheat]

“Insurance! Who will insure these trips?”

The passengers will agree to liquidated or limited damages, so that is capped. The heirs will have to agree too. The crew will have life insurance and contractually limited claims by heirs. All standard stuff.

The issue that I am curious about is the inability of the company to limit its liability for damage and loss to third parties by falling debris. They could theoretically have almost unlimited liability should one of their large objects land on a sports stadium full of people. In this they have the same problem as commercial operators of nuclear power plants, except government passed a law to assume umbrella coverage for them.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I’m sure if they’re someone important to a major company there would be a clause prohibiting such risk taking.

And you raised a very good point about damages and losses to 3rd parties.

This is not an easy “speed bump” cost for commercial space to absorb.

One “oops” and the company folds.