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Foolish Earthling
Has anyone read the August issue of Scientific American? In the Letters section, there is a letter from a retired Air Force pilot AND astronaut talking about how it's a good thing man should stay out of space!
He goes on to say how much more effecient unmanned probes are, and that space is no place for a human. WOW is that hypocritical of an "astronaut" or what?
I actually felt nauseated reading his letter.
Mankind belongs out among the stars, and the sooner we figure out how to do it, the better.
Thanks for the article Mike,....maybe there's hope yet.
He goes on to say how much more effecient unmanned probes are, and that space is no place for a human. WOW is that hypocritical of an "astronaut" or what?
I actually felt nauseated reading his letter.
Mankind belongs out among the stars, and the sooner we figure out how to do it, the better.
Thanks for the article Mike,....maybe there's hope yet.
You're welcome mate,
I agree, growing up all i ever wanted to be was an astronaught, the local US embassy would send me beautiful books about the space program, and i spent many a happy hour looking through the colour glossys within.
Im glad to see we are still reaching for the stars...........
I agree, growing up all i ever wanted to be was an astronaught, the local US embassy would send me beautiful books about the space program, and i spent many a happy hour looking through the colour glossys within.
Im glad to see we are still reaching for the stars...........
exo_doc
Foolish Earthling
Just what IS up with the death of the manned space program?
We, meaning you -me -NASA , knew way in advance the shuttles were going to be used up.
We should have been planning for that. But no, we just let it die. No replacements in sight.
Now it looks like the ISS will have to be abandoned until a (more?) reliable lift vehicle is found after the Russian lifter exploded last month carrying supplies to them. Russia had planned on using that same lifter to get astronauts up there and back down. Now that's on hold.
And now we have at least one astronaut , Don Peterson, who is saying man shouldn't go into space.....here's his bio. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/peterson-dh.html
HE HAS ACTUALLY BEEN TO SPACE but doesn't think man belongs there? SO it was OK for HIM to go to space, but not anyone else from now on??? WTF?
Maybe it's sour grapes on my part to be so pissed off at him, but it's like he's a traitor to the dreams of every astronaut wanna be.
What happened to space being the final frontier? What happened to all those grandious ideas and visions NASA had in the 60's, 70's, and part of the 80's? Where's the moon base? Where's the Mars base?
Who or what is driving a stake through manned explorations heart? Apathy of the American people?
But if that's so, where did that blase' attitude come from? We should still be riding the crest of the Apollo wave into deep space, instead of settling for little remote control dune buggies on Mars.
Something is killing the space program, and it seems to be from the top down.....and I want to know why.
We, meaning you -me -NASA , knew way in advance the shuttles were going to be used up.
We should have been planning for that. But no, we just let it die. No replacements in sight.
Now it looks like the ISS will have to be abandoned until a (more?) reliable lift vehicle is found after the Russian lifter exploded last month carrying supplies to them. Russia had planned on using that same lifter to get astronauts up there and back down. Now that's on hold.
And now we have at least one astronaut , Don Peterson, who is saying man shouldn't go into space.....here's his bio. http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/peterson-dh.html
HE HAS ACTUALLY BEEN TO SPACE but doesn't think man belongs there? SO it was OK for HIM to go to space, but not anyone else from now on??? WTF?
Maybe it's sour grapes on my part to be so pissed off at him, but it's like he's a traitor to the dreams of every astronaut wanna be.
What happened to space being the final frontier? What happened to all those grandious ideas and visions NASA had in the 60's, 70's, and part of the 80's? Where's the moon base? Where's the Mars base?
Who or what is driving a stake through manned explorations heart? Apathy of the American people?
But if that's so, where did that blase' attitude come from? We should still be riding the crest of the Apollo wave into deep space, instead of settling for little remote control dune buggies on Mars.
Something is killing the space program, and it seems to be from the top down.....and I want to know why.
boomerang
Paranormal Adept
You can't simultaneously build a large and complex manned space station while trashing the infrastructure needed to service it. I'm waiting for the next PR proposal from on high: cobbling together enough model rocket engines and balsa wood to do it cheaply. 
Give us a break!
Give us a break!