NASA's future post Columbia

Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining
brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and two together?

Nathan Rogers

Blurrt wrote:

Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining
brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and two together?

NASA should be invading New Jersey?

Paul

Blurrt wrote:

Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining
brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and two together?

Nathan Rogers

Not when that two and two are billions of dollars.

Mars is cool at the moment (and comes almost as close, *much* more
often), but convince Congress to spend the money (at a time when Federal
pay raises are being reduced, to pay for rebuilding Iraq), and NASA
would *love* to do another big manned space project.

But do not hold your breath while waiting.

Others will argue (and reasonably) that an agency that can't even get
to Low Earth Orbit with sufficent safety, can't be trusted to go to
Mars....

"Blurrt" writes:

Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining
brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and two together?

Clearly you don't remember what happened the last time NASA was asked
to estimate the cost of a manned Mars program. It was a disaster.
NASA won't be asked that question again for some time, if at all.

Jeff
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"Jorge R. Frank" wrote in message ...
"Paul F. Dietz" wrote in
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Blurrt wrote:

Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining
brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and two together?

NASA should be invading New Jersey?

Hmm, that would certainly explain all the new Social Security numbers being
issued in Grover's Mill.

What the heck is going on!
We have 3 or is it 4 Buckaroo Banzai fans posting here!!?

Al Jackson wrote:

What the heck is going on!
We have 3 or is it 4 Buckaroo Banzai fans posting here!!?

No matter where you go, there we are.

Paul

Paul F. Dietz wrote:

Blurrt wrote:

Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining
brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and two together?


NASA should be invading New Jersey?

Maybe NASA can fix the car insurance situation here in NJ. Nobody else has
been able to.

Joann Evans wrote:

Blurrt wrote:


Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years, shining
brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and two together?

Nathan Rogers



Not when that two and two are billions of dollars.

Mars is cool at the moment (and comes almost as close, *much* more
often), but convince Congress to spend the money (at a time when Federal
pay raises are being reduced, to pay for rebuilding Iraq), and NASA
would *love* to do another big manned space project.

But do not hold your breath while waiting.

Others will argue (and reasonably) that an agency that can't even get
to Low Earth Orbit with sufficent safety, can't be trusted to go to
Mars....




Thre's still the issues of long term weightlessness and radiation
exposure that need to
be solved yet.

h (Rand Simberg) wrote in
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On 28 Aug 2003 17:29:16 -0700, in a place far, far away,
(Al Jackson) made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Everyone at the moment is considering what NASA should be doing
post-columbia. With Mars at its closest approach in 60000 years,
shining brightly overhead - is it really so hard to put two and
two together?

NASA should be invading New Jersey?

Hmm, that would certainly explain all the new Social Security
numbers being issued in Grover's Mill.

What the heck is going on!
We have 3 or is it 4 Buckaroo Banzai fans posting here!!?

Errrmmm...

No. Have you ever read any H. G. Wells?

IIRC, H. G. Wells' novel had the Martians landing on Horsell Common in
England. It was Orson Welles' radio version that moved it to Grover's Mill,
NJ. George Pal's film version moved it again, to Linda Rosa, CA.

The reference to Social Security numbers is, of course, pure Buckaroo. But
what do I care? It's not my damn planet, monkeyboy.

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On 29 Aug 2003 06:56:04 GMT, in a place far, far away, "Jorge R.
Frank" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

No. Have you ever read any H. G. Wells?

IIRC, H. G. Wells' novel had the Martians landing on Horsell Common in
England. It was Orson Welles' radio version that moved it to Grover's Mill,
NJ. George Pal's film version moved it again, to Linda Rosa, CA.

The reference to Social Security numbers is, of course, pure Buckaroo. But
what do I care? It's not my damn planet, monkeyboy.

Heeeyyy...that's *Mr.* Monkeyboy to you...

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