Thread: Worth The Mission?
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Old July 6th 06, 08:17 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.space.moderated
Rand Simberg[_1_]
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Default Worth The Mission?
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:14:24 -0400, in a place far, far away,
(Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:31:41 -0400, in a place far, far away,
: h (Rand Simberg) made the phosphor on my
: monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:28:25 -0400, in a place far, far away,
: (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
: monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
:
: Paul F. Dietz ) wrote:
: : There isn't much science or exploratory work of any kind, bold or
: : timid, occuring on Shuttle or ISS.
:
: : They're both exploring vast new areas in the consumption of federal funds.
:
: Maybe NASA contracts shouldn't be to large defense industry corporations
: that have a majority of their income from the DOD?
:
: The DOD waste mentality has bled on over to NASA even though you appear to
: be blind to it based upon your bias.
:
: There is now, and never was a difference in mentality, except during
: Apollo, when the goal really seemed important.

: Sorry, that should have been "There is not now, and never was..."

Freudian slip?

No, a typo.

Mercury and Gemini? Surely, you generalize yet again?

Yet another non sequitur.

And unmanned spaceflight, do you honestly believe that Voyager, Viking and
the current Martian rovers weren't/aren't about the mission?

They were partly about the mission.