Posted on 09/01/2014 1:34:40 PM PDT by lbryce
SpaceX Falcon Heavy (animation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3gk5-Yygw
We’re sending Michelle Obama into space????
Well, it really is about spending money, because it doesn’t have a mission (other than to spend money).
I thought its purpose was muslim outreach???
/johnny
/johnny
It was going strong, but had delays, Obama tried to cancel it as part of the switch to muzzie outreach, congress restored funding; ultimately the program was defunded and cancelled as part of the Obama agenda.
Now that you mention it, I do recall some plans. They weren’t very impressive plans even when they were still active.
Returning to the moon in the 2020s. Really? Mars in the 2030s or 40s. I forget the exact dates.
When he announced them I groaned.
We knew the shuttle was going to phase out decades before it did. Where was the replacement ride when it did?
It has not been 45 years since we landed on the moon.
This is almost Biblical in it’s utter collapse.
IOW, what is printed in that excerpt and what you continue to say are not the same thing. Thanks for clearing it up. The successor program would have replaced the Shuttle for LEO *by now*, and provided it continued in development would be on track (whatever delays etc would have arisen) to return to the Moon. Obama and his fellow ‘rats cancelled it.
“Has now been...”
not
“Has not been...”
That’s some serious heavy lift.
I don’t disagree.
Our second goal is to develop and test a new spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle, by 2008, and to conduct the first manned mission no later than 2014. The Crew Exploration Vehicle will be capable of ferrying astronauts and scientists to the Space Station after the shuttle is retired. But the main purpose of this spacecraft will be to carry astronauts beyond our orbit to other worlds. This will be the first spacecraft of its kind since the Apollo Command Module.
Our third goal is to return to the moon by 2020, as the launching point for missions beyond. Beginning no later than 2008, we will send a series of robotic missions to the lunar surface to research and prepare for future human exploration. Using the Crew Exploration Vehicle, we will undertake extended human missions to the moon as early as 2015, with the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods. Eugene Cernan, who is with us today -- the last man to set foot on the lunar surface -- said this as he left: "We leave as we came, and God willing as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." America will make those words come true. (Applause.)
I'm not certain Bush even met his own goals. Obama certainly didn't help any, that's for sure.
Obama's only goal has been the next green exploration.
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Leave it to Obama to return even our space program to the 60s.
Aerojet - Rocketdyne is building this rocket.
That is the specific terms for liquid oxygen & liquid hydrogen rocket fuel they used on the Shuttle.
It is not pure oxygen and hydrogen. Those 2 are more reactive.
Bad stuff to mess with.
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