Posted on 07/21/2018 6:52:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
When the Bamster cut the ‘Next Generation’ of space vehicles that we could use to get to OUR Space Station, his plan was for Russia to take control and use it against us. We need to, at the very least, ramp up our space program to the point that we can get to OUR Space Station on our own!
I used to be for government paying for all sorts of things that might create technology which could filter back to civilian use.
Then I became a stronger conservative and said these things would happen, anyway, without the government putting fingers into the mix.
Didn’t Putin say he plans to sell it ,LOL
Cruz represents Texas. Texas gets a lot of the ISS boondoggle dollars.
Cruz is defending the government money spent in Houston.
Per usual, “conservative” pols are conservative about spending money—unless it goes into their home state.
This is nasa work relief. It is huge!! I was recently there.. hundreds of acres. Thousands and thousands bureaucrats. We have a 21 trillion dollar debt . We should not be blowing money on pipe dreams.
This is nasa work relief. It is huge!! I was recently there.. hundreds of acres. Thousands and thousands bureaucrats. We have a 21 trillion dollar debt . We should not be blowing money on pipe dreams.
This is nasa work relief. It is huge!! I was recently there.. hundreds of acres. Thousands and thousands bureaucrats. We have a 21 trillion dollar debt . We should not be blowing money on pipe dreams.
If NASA backs off providing executive management more and more as they provide open ended funding, the risk of something going wrong increases.
Who holds the responsibility and liability of a disaster, the government or the private sector? Who picks up the pieces?
Or is the entire concept of space exploration terminated?
Elon Musk, paging Mr. Elon Musk. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
We need to drop this ISS crap as any kind of priority and build our own. We must be the leader on earth and in space.
There's no money in it. Space exploration must be done by NASA but the problem is leftists have saturated our government at every level. It's really hard to envision a long term fix for our nation. The loss of NASA as we knew it is just more evidence liberals have damaged our country beyond repair.
It may matter on when we can get our own locally-launched crews back to the station. If we’re putting money into a station for other nations to play with when we can’t get our own crews and equipment up there using our own equipment, then we should withdraw funding.
For now, it looks like a lot is riding on whether Musk can successfully get his capsule rated for human occupancy.
That is part of my problem too.I dont do international; I do NATIONAL. When we saw Armstrong dedicate our mission to the moon to “man kind? I hit my dog with my beer can. I yelled. “ Mankind didn’t pay for this, This is for AMERICA” . Gawd what a bunch of old women.
NASA is, I believe, planning to construct a new space station called Gateway that will orbit the moon. Assuming we need a space station, do we need two of them?
If the Station were performing real needed-in-the-future-to-move-out-into-the-solar-system technologies, I’d support it more.
That means artificial gravity, shielding from cosmic rays, advanced propulsion and power techniques, and rendezvous/refueling practices.
Except for the last, this Station does NONE of those.
It was built to justify the Shuttle program, modified to accommodate out-of-work ex-Soviet engineers, and is maintained to keep the American taxpayer think we’re a “space-faring” nation.
We haven’t been that since 1972.
Then I became a stronger conservative and said these things would happen, anyway, without the government putting fingers into the mix.
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Yes, you are correct, just not in your life time or your grand kids lifetime, but the would happen. And as a bonus, if you are willing to wait, aliens will land on Earth ... just not for the next few billion years ...
Life is a risk. exploration of the frontier was a risk. driving is a risk. Risk is inherent in everything we do. Why should manned space exploration be different?
That is part of my problem too.I dont do international; I do NATIONAL. When we saw Armstrong dedicate our mission to the moon to “man kind? I hit my dog with my beer can. I yelled. “ Mankind didn’t pay for this, This is for AMERICA” . Gawd what a bunch of old women.
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Christopher Columbus’ wife’s reaction was much the same.
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