What Will be the Future of NASA?

On Jan 25, 11:36*am, Doug Freyburger wrote:
wrote:

What direction will NASA take with the retirement of the overly
expensive shuttle program? Will America ever have a meaningful
exploration program again? Will it be canceled because of the huge
national debt? These are challenges we will need to contemplate.

Right now is the golden age of robotic deep space exporation. *Probes
from several coutries including the US are out there right now going to
new places and revisiting far away old places.

Having started my career at JPL I have an open bias favoring unmanned
probes. *If "A man's reach should exceed his grasp" then humanity's
reach (unmanned probes) should exceed our grasp (manned space). *It's
not a bad thing to lead the world in robotic space exploration funded by
the government, nor even a bad thing to be one country doing that among
several.

I'm okay with the current privatization moving toward manned space. *In
the long run it is bound to beat anything NASA can do. *Same principle
as Columbus's government funded trips versus the larger private
invasions. *Same principle as Lewis and Clark's government funded trip
versus the larger private colonizations.

Yes, unmanned probes beat anything involving humans by a good thousand
to one, and then some.

The obvious exceptions might be a planet like Venus, or even
developing and exploiting the interior of our moon, but then you'd
need to have a brain of a dysfunctional 5th grader to understand, and
like religion government has no brains whatsoever.

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On Jan 28, 6:20*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Brad Guth wrote:

Yes, unmanned probes beat anything involving humans by a good thousand
to one, and then some.

Counterfactual dog-mookie.



The obvious exceptions might be a planet like Venus, or even
developing and exploiting the interior of our moon, but then you'd
need to have a brain of a dysfunctional 5th grader to understand,

Well, that explains why you get it and why us sane adults think you're
a loon.

Myself compared to your zero contributions is perhaps why you'd know
best.

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Hello,
What direction will NASA take with the retirement of the overly
expensive shuttle program? Will America ever have a meaningful
exploration program again? Will it be canceled because of the huge
national debt? These are challenges we will need to contemplate.




Moonbase?

We'll have a moonbase the day our military decides we need
a moonbase, and not before. And our military will only build
a moonbase at the end of a thirty year long cold war with the
Chinese for control of space. Thirty years of wasting every
last dime on a ignorant, dangerous and barbaric technological
race not unlike the equally thoughtless cold war with the Soviets.

Be careful what you wish for.

On Jan 25, 6:28*am, " wrote:
Hello,
What direction will NASA take with the retirement of the overly
expensive shuttle program? Will America ever have a meaningful
exploration program again? Will it be canceled because of the huge
national debt? These are challenges we will need to contemplate.

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No money, no NASA or DARPA. What's to figure out or ponder?
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