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Old February 3rd 10, 05:16 PM posted to sci.physics,sci.astro
Mike Jr
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Default New Space Plan Will Take Months

On Feb 3, 12:03*am, "J. Clarke" wrote:
Mike Jr wrote:
""To people who are working on these programs, this is like a death in
the family," an emotional NASA chief Charles Bolden told reporters
Tuesday, choking up at times. "Everybody needs to understand that and
we need to give them time to grieve and then we need to give them time
to recover.""


http://www.space.com/news/nasa-futur...on-100202.html


NASA is going to be getting the top recruits now, no doubt about it.~


And once again the politicians show us that all the hue and cry about how
the US is falling behind in science is just posturing and that they don't
really give a damn.

If you want Americans to study science and engineering, the high-glamor
projects and the good jobs have to be out there, and the sad fact is that
most Americans who did study those fields cannot find work in them.


There is certainly a lot of damage that the next administration is
going to have to fix.

It is interesting fact that gamers are driving the evolution and
advancement of graphics cards. Those very same cards are being used
to drive the desktops used to analyze photographic intelligence.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/iec.htm

I think the lesson is that manned space exploration has to make
economic sense. It currently does not. NASA shouldn't be the primary
driver of manned space flight technology but rather the beneficiary of
technology being advanced by commercial concerns, even if that
commercial concern is something as mundane as space tourism.

--Mike Jr.