Angry Astronauts Write Letter

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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They do not like the new space plans, they do not like them Obama-I-Am:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36470363/ns/nightly_news/
And yet another letter from the NASA Space Cowboys accusing the president
of confusing his mass with his ass, his angle with his dangle, and being a
no-good dirt farmer trying to fence in the high frontier:
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/new...estuff/?p=4052
No word about how Big Chuck Bolden of the Lazy Star Ranch will deal with
this stampede by the old NASA longhorns, but it's going to take a mighty
big lasso to bring all these runaway doggies to heel.

To quote the ariticle....

"The availability of a commercial transport to orbit as envisioned in the
President's proposal cannot be predicted with any certainty, but is
likely to take substantially longer and be more expensive than
we would hope."

Oh Bull****!

And welcome to the real world, the private sector, where market forces
tend to favor what's useful, and dump the waste overboard.
I guess these astronauts are determined that NASA keep the crap, and
even make it NASA"s primary goal and biggest expense...another
forty years of it.

And the request below points out all too clearly why the last 50 years has
been a rather huge waste of space faring time.



"NASA needs to go somewhere specific, not just talk about it, skeptical
U.S. senators told the space agency chief Wednesday"
"Senators to NASA chief: Go somewhere specific'


Somewhere? As in ....anywhere, as long as its....somewhere!
Whether it makes sense or not? No, NASA needs to ....DO...
something specific. Solve some specific problem or need which
would benefit society and justify the effort. NOT just go ****ing
......SOMEWHERE.

It just makes me insane! It's not like there's any shortage of national
problems.

A goal that has no other purpose than itself defines waste
and will do more to turn the taxpayers against NASA
than anything else.


Jonathan


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