tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post688188379407798791..comments2023-12-27T22:36:01.407-06:00Comments on Anna's Clue Tank: Endeavour Lands for Final TimeAnnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364196938058625069noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-29878745269973036602011-06-06T09:33:16.211-05:002011-06-06T09:33:16.211-05:00I know Garry. I have met some of the rocket scien...I know Garry. I have met some of the rocket scientists who are seeing their entire careers destroyed by this. Not happy is an understatement. That they all happen to live and work in states that voted Bushis not suspicious at all, really.... /sarc<br /><br />After Apollo was prematurely shutdown, NASA still had Skylab and Shuttle programs coming online. So the infrastruture and people remained. Now does NASA have anything? Unless things are reversed on Orion and Ares, the answer is no. Which will leave the US in the position of asking for Soyuz missions from Russia and paying over $400mil for the privledge of blasting off in a 45 year old design. Meanwhile the PRC and Japan are looking to space for resources.<br /><br />Commercial US space launches, will they save the US? The millionaires who pay the Russians for a flight will still fly. But that is it. No commercial craft right now can reach the ISS. So back to paying Russia and having no other way to get to low-orbit or anywhere else.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13364196938058625069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-91125762535168133632011-06-06T04:18:27.043-05:002011-06-06T04:18:27.043-05:00Well yes Anna, you said it.
Retiring the shuttle i...Well yes Anna, you said it.<br />Retiring the shuttle is one thing but retiring all of the support infrastructure that goes with it is the real blow.<br />The US is big and strong enough to come back from that but it should not need to be doing any coming back.nzgarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501271230008690840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-3518173690298994732011-06-03T17:17:04.288-05:002011-06-03T17:17:04.288-05:00Obama and his lack of space vision burns me up. S...Obama and his lack of space vision burns me up. Shutting down Orion and Ares while retiring the Shuttles has put so many highly skilled people out of work, its not funny in the least.<br /><br />Out of the $787billion in Stimulus, could Obama have spared $20billion over 4 years to help NASA with its underfunded budget? Instead that braintrust has been more than decimated.<br /><br />Because of Obama, the US is now well down the road to becoming the Portugal of space. While the PRC and Russia surge forward to claim the power and recources found on the Moon.<br /><br />Yes, JFK would be sick. JFK loved this country. Obama only loves himself.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13364196938058625069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-31361016640185326722011-06-02T11:24:26.846-05:002011-06-02T11:24:26.846-05:00Now that Ubama has deemed NASA a "muslim outr...Now that Ubama has deemed NASA a "muslim outreach" organization, the Russians will be the only ones to get our people back and forth to the ISS.<br /><br />"Need ride komrade?"<br />http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/NF.jpg<br /><br />JFK weeps.Rides A Pale Horsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-60952759429953662372011-06-02T04:59:23.238-05:002011-06-02T04:59:23.238-05:00The shuttle fleet retirement is undeniably sad.
A...The shuttle fleet retirement is undeniably sad. <br />As you say so well, it is contemplating the future that makes it hurt all the more.<br />It seems odd that the technology is reverting to missile style rocketry after all this time.<br />The shuttle never lived up to either its cost per mission or mission frequency projections but who cares - it has performed magnificiently. Furthermore, reusability is far more an issue today than it was in 1981.nzgarryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501271230008690840noreply@blogger.com