A.T. Hagan :
Once more Brevard county is going to take a massive hit to local employment. I lost a lot of friends as a boy when they killed the Apollo program and their parents had to move away to where ever they could find work.
It's been over forty years since we first set foot on the Moon. Now we won't have the capacity to get one of our own astronauts into even low-Earth orbit.
A week after the launch it'll be the Russian space station and we'll be having to pay them to get us there.
Long-term development projects and political leadership that changes its mind every four to eight years is a certain recipe for wasting billions of dollars. An entire generation of manned space exploration has been lost.
I don't know about the generation being lost. Our foray into space created a heck of a lot of technological advances. For us and the world. The world is a totally different place than it was 40 years ago. We were the leaders then in technology and strength. Allegedly any technology Russia had was stolen from us by spies at the time. These days other countries are doing just as well or better. The world truly is turning flat and we are gradually turning into one big happy family. Well one big family anyway. Everything is shred and the days of American exceptional ism are pretty much over.
If you remember we didn't have anything going on as far as space until the Russians launched Sputnik. Then Kennedy kicked it into high gear. He magically got the whole country behind a common goal. We won't ever see that again. We as a country blazed the trail. We sank all the billions into the needed research to get there. Now it's time for the big money people to benefit from all the money that was spent to get where they are and take it even further.
Last I heard the Mars stuff was just a dream. There really isn't a reason for it, other than to say we did it. They want to shut down Social Security and pull medical coverage for our seniors. Where are we going to get the money to go to a dead planet. It's time for the space station to be used for big money to make bigger money. Uncle Sam can just pay for all the maintenance and repairs and subsidize the pharmaceutical companies and technological companies that will use it for 0 gravity research.
Maybe in the future when the entire world is under one central government they can afford to try to go to Mars. Let Captain Kirk do it.
Once more Brevard county is going to take a massive hit to local employment. I lost a lot of friends as a boy when they killed the Apollo program and their parents had to move away to where ever they could find work.
It's been over forty years since we first set foot on the Moon. Now we won't have the capacity to get one of our own astronauts into even low-Earth orbit.
A week after the launch it'll be the Russian space station and we'll be having to pay them to get us there.
Long-term development projects and political leadership that changes its mind every four to eight years is a certain recipe for wasting billions of dollars. An entire generation of manned space exploration has been lost.
I don't know about the generation being lost. Our foray into space created a heck of a lot of technological advances. For us and the world. The world is a totally different place than it was 40 years ago. We were the leaders then in technology and strength. Allegedly any technology Russia had was stolen from us by spies at the time. These days other countries are doing just as well or better. The world truly is turning flat and we are gradually turning into one big happy family. Well one big family anyway. Everything is shred and the days of American exceptional ism are pretty much over.
If you remember we didn't have anything going on as far as space until the Russians launched Sputnik. Then Kennedy kicked it into high gear. He magically got the whole country behind a common goal. We won't ever see that again. We as a country blazed the trail. We sank all the billions into the needed research to get there. Now it's time for the big money people to benefit from all the money that was spent to get where they are and take it even further.
Last I heard the Mars stuff was just a dream. There really isn't a reason for it, other than to say we did it. They want to shut down Social Security and pull medical coverage for our seniors. Where are we going to get the money to go to a dead planet. It's time for the space station to be used for big money to make bigger money. Uncle Sam can just pay for all the maintenance and repairs and subsidize the pharmaceutical companies and technological companies that will use it for 0 gravity research.
Maybe in the future when the entire world is under one central government they can afford to try to go to Mars. Let Captain Kirk do it.
