The current American space program

On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 11:58:32 PM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
1. Spent $150 billion on the ISS, sapping any money for a Shuttle continuation or replacement.

2. Failed attempt to build a heavy lift rocket.

3. Having to crawl to Russia (with who they are having a tiff over the Ukraine) to launch astronauts.

4. The mysterious and unexplained cancellation (after spending $700M) of the "Prometheus Project," a plan to develop a large RTG to provide tens of thousands of watts of power to unmanned probes so they could do wide-ranging experiments on solar system planets.



Kick the unctuous buffoon out of the White House, things might change.

Our DARPA and NASA have become ghost towns with only wussy probes sent to places that can't possibly improve the quality of life or revise our GW+AGW demise for the better.

The national leadership sucks almost as badly as the mutually perpetrated cold-war era.