Moon key to space future?

Rep. Dana Rohbabeacher is an honest politician. Here in Florida we have
no such animal. NASA for the last 30 years has all the wrong stuff. It
took the thrill out of exploring space by doing year after year low
orbit experiments. Like most polititions when they steal money and kill
they cover up,stone wall and lie.(sounds like Nixen) They have covered
up the Columbia tragedy,and will pay off the relatives of those dead
astronouts the same way they paid the relatives of the Challenger crew.
Commander Smith family got 2.5 million. Lets hope until we
have a NASA with the right stuff,they will use robots instead of people.
Lets hope we can have a NASA that does not lie,or steal money (100
million still missing) Lets hope when they fly a shuttle in
March the head man of NASA is aboard. Lets
bring back the great engineering of the Apollo,and build a base on the
moon. Its only three days away,and do our weightless experiments coming
and going. That saves time and lots of money. Time to take the wings
off the shuttle. Bert

NASA IMHO has been an object lesson on how bureaucrats can slowly
destroy a program. The space shuttle had little or no scientific
purpose (point to one achievement that justifies the price in money or
lives). The present shuttle configuration is antiquated with respect to
present-day computer technology much less electrical engineering.
Opposite to the policies of the Russians and Chinese, the NASA did not
design the shuttle for gradual evolution and upgrading. When I had
dealings with NASA almost 30 years ago, they had a manned program
fixation. This meant that they had to invent work for the chaps because
Apollo was dead. However the program was successful in that generations
of the higher admins served, sent their kids to college and retired.
Unfortunately the only thing that seems appropriate is to end the
antiquated obsolete shuttle program now, maybe the space lab (or use
Russian gear).

kevin wrote:

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:35:05 -0500 (EST)
(G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote:



Rep. Dana Rohbabeacher is an honest politician. Here in Florida we have
no such animal. NASA for the last 30 years has all the wrong stuff. It
took the thrill out of exploring space by doing year after year low
orbit experiments. Like most polititions when they steal money and kill
they cover up,stone wall and lie.(sounds like Nixen) They have covered
up the Columbia tragedy,and will pay off the relatives of those dead
astronouts the same way they paid the relatives of the Challenger crew.
Commander Smith family got 2.5 million. Lets hope until we
have a NASA with the right stuff,they will use robots instead of people.
Lets hope we can have a NASA that does not lie,or steal money (100
million still missing) Lets hope when they fly a shuttle in
March the head man of NASA is aboard. Lets
bring back the great engineering of the Apollo,and build a base on the
moon. Its only three days away,and do our weightless experiments coming
and going. That saves time and lots of money. Time to take the wings
off the shuttle. Bert




Absolutely, I read a while back about these so called low earth orbit
experiments and how that justified the ISS, it is all a load of
crap. They are not doing anything in low earth orbit that cannot
be done right here on the ground in suitable labs. In fact I'll
wager that more important experiments are indeed being
carried out down here on the ground than any experiments that they can
come up with to do on the ISS.

To my astonishment I even read recently somewhere that NASA is
planning to launch the shuttle!!(sometime in early new year and
subject to safety tests!!!) Well sod their safety tests I wouldnt
get on it for sure... What a waste of lives, money and manpower
and for what??..


Still hoping they will abandone the ISS.