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NASA, what happens when you squander money on the ISS turkey andglobal warming scams
22 June 2011 Last updated at 06:12 ET
Shuttle launch set amid job woes Pallab Ghosh By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News The astronauts who will fly on the last ever shuttle mission have arrived in Florida to take part in a dress rehearsal for its last flight. The rehearsal involves the crew and the shuttle team going through every step of the launch up to the firing of the shuttle's engines and rocket booster. But as the crew prepares for space, workers at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center face uncertain futures as thousands of jobs are cut. Atlantis is set to launch on 8 July. The flight will bring the curtain down on the shuttle's 30-year-long run as America's manned space vehicle. After that, engineers will decommission the orbiters as they are now doing to the shuttle Discovery at the Orbiter Processing Facility. The fleet is being mothballed and one-by-one each of the shuttles will be put on display as museum pieces. But as the plan to retire the shuttle fleet has progressed to its completion, thousands of staff have been laid off. And many more employment contracts will come to an end next month when the final mission is over. Uncertain future Among those who will be laid off is James Matthews. His job was to help refurbish each shuttle after its mission and get the vehicle ready for its next launch. He has helped care for the fleet for some 20 years. Now, suddenly he's out of a job. Mr Matthews spends some of his new free time with other ex-Nasa engineers at their favourite bar - a British Pub called the Pig and Whistle. "Things have been affected," he told me, perched at a bar decked out with the flags of England, Scotland and Wales. "The house prices have gone down because everyone is taking a job somewhere else, with Boeing or Lockheed and they are selling their house." Sitting beside him is his friend and former colleague Jeff Felver. His next job will be to decommission Atlantis when it returns from its final mission. It will also be his last job with the US space agency. "I got a lot of friends that are in the same boat," he told me. "But we're going to get through this." Bittersweet time Fifty miles up the road - towards the Kennedy Space Center, Jerry Mulberry helps his wife run a shop selling space memorabilia. He is folding commemorative T-shirts for the tourists due to arrive to witness the final launch. Two months ago he was a quality control engineer on the space shuttle programme. "It's a sad and a happy time," he tells me. Happy because the launch of the final mission is a chance to celebrate the achievements of a fleet that local people have come to know and love. But, says Mr Mulberry, it is sad because in a month's time, the US will be reliant on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Among the customers in the shop is a scientist visiting from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Mark Hubbard is likely to keep his job but he is concerned that neither Nasa, nor the US administration has a clear plan for a replacement to the shuttle. "My friends and family are always asking me 'what's next?' And I say we're not sure," he says ruefully. "It's a question we (at Nasa) all have. We are wondering about the vision for the space programme and where we're headed now. There's a tenuous feeling about what the future of our space programme is." As the astronauts arrive to prepare for one last mission, it's a bittersweet moment for residents on Florida's Space Coast: On 8 July they, like many across the world, will be celebrating the achievements of a much loved friend. But they will be left wondering whether the best years of human space travel now lie now the past. |
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NASA, what happens when you squander money on the ISS turkey and global warming scams
I wouldn't worry about it. Major powers in the world are on the verge of
collapse and third world countries are either on the brink of war with the major powers or each other. It's about to get a lot worse..... but there will be relief once the Creator of the universe arrives in the wink of an eye. Only a matter of time now. "$27 TRILLION to pay for Kyoto" wrote in message ... 22 June 2011 Last updated at 06:12 ET Shuttle launch set amid job woes Pallab Ghosh By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News The astronauts who will fly on the last ever shuttle mission have arrived in Florida to take part in a dress rehearsal for its last flight. The rehearsal involves the crew and the shuttle team going through every step of the launch up to the firing of the shuttle's engines and rocket booster. But as the crew prepares for space, workers at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center face uncertain futures as thousands of jobs are cut. Atlantis is set to launch on 8 July. The flight will bring the curtain down on the shuttle's 30-year-long run as America's manned space vehicle. After that, engineers will decommission the orbiters as they are now doing to the shuttle Discovery at the Orbiter Processing Facility. The fleet is being mothballed and one-by-one each of the shuttles will be put on display as museum pieces. But as the plan to retire the shuttle fleet has progressed to its completion, thousands of staff have been laid off. And many more employment contracts will come to an end next month when the final mission is over. Uncertain future Among those who will be laid off is James Matthews. His job was to help refurbish each shuttle after its mission and get the vehicle ready for its next launch. He has helped care for the fleet for some 20 years. Now, suddenly he's out of a job. Mr Matthews spends some of his new free time with other ex-Nasa engineers at their favourite bar - a British Pub called the Pig and Whistle. "Things have been affected," he told me, perched at a bar decked out with the flags of England, Scotland and Wales. "The house prices have gone down because everyone is taking a job somewhere else, with Boeing or Lockheed and they are selling their house." Sitting beside him is his friend and former colleague Jeff Felver. His next job will be to decommission Atlantis when it returns from its final mission. It will also be his last job with the US space agency. "I got a lot of friends that are in the same boat," he told me. "But we're going to get through this." Bittersweet time Fifty miles up the road - towards the Kennedy Space Center, Jerry Mulberry helps his wife run a shop selling space memorabilia. He is folding commemorative T-shirts for the tourists due to arrive to witness the final launch. Two months ago he was a quality control engineer on the space shuttle programme. "It's a sad and a happy time," he tells me. Happy because the launch of the final mission is a chance to celebrate the achievements of a fleet that local people have come to know and love. But, says Mr Mulberry, it is sad because in a month's time, the US will be reliant on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Among the customers in the shop is a scientist visiting from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Mark Hubbard is likely to keep his job but he is concerned that neither Nasa, nor the US administration has a clear plan for a replacement to the shuttle. "My friends and family are always asking me 'what's next?' And I say we're not sure," he says ruefully. "It's a question we (at Nasa) all have. We are wondering about the vision for the space programme and where we're headed now. There's a tenuous feeling about what the future of our space programme is." As the astronauts arrive to prepare for one last mission, it's a bittersweet moment for residents on Florida's Space Coast: On 8 July they, like many across the world, will be celebrating the achievements of a much loved friend. But they will be left wondering whether the best years of human space travel now lie now the past. |
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On Jun 22, 9:23*am, "$27 TRILLION to pay for Kyoto"
wrote:"... "It's a question we (at Nasa) all have. We are wondering about the vision for the space programme and where we're headed now." what are the republican candidatesviews on the future of nasa? |
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On Jun 22, 8:25*pm, columbiaaccidentinvestigation
wrote: On Jun 22, 9:23*am, "$27 TRILLION to pay for wrote:"... "It's a question we (at Nasa) all have. We are wondering about the vision for the space programme and where we're headed now." what are the republican candidatesviews on the future of nasa? Republicans want to double-spend every dime we can borrow, but not on anything the average American really needs. http://www.wanttoknow.info/ http://translate.google.com/# Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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On Jun 22, 9:23*am, "$27 TRILLION to pay for Kyoto"
wrote: 22 June 2011 Last updated at 06:12 ET Shuttle launch set amid job woes Pallab Ghosh By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News The astronauts who will fly on the last ever shuttle mission have arrived in Florida to take part in a dress rehearsal for its last flight. The rehearsal involves the crew and the shuttle team going through every step of the launch up to the firing of the shuttle's engines and rocket booster. But as the crew prepares for space, workers at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center face uncertain futures as thousands of jobs are cut. Atlantis is set to launch on 8 July. The flight will bring the curtain down on the shuttle's 30-year-long run as America's manned space vehicle. After that, engineers will decommission the orbiters as they are now doing to the shuttle Discovery at the Orbiter Processing Facility. The fleet is being mothballed and one-by-one each of the shuttles will be put on display as museum pieces. But as the plan to retire the shuttle fleet has progressed to its completion, thousands of staff have been laid off. And many more employment contracts will come to an end next month when the final mission is over. Uncertain future Among those who will be laid off is James Matthews. His job was to help refurbish each shuttle after its mission and get the vehicle ready for its next launch. He has helped care for the fleet for some 20 years. Now, suddenly he's out of a job. Mr Matthews spends some of his new free time with other ex-Nasa engineers at their favourite bar - a British Pub called the Pig and Whistle. "Things have been affected," he told me, perched at a bar decked out with the flags of England, Scotland and Wales. "The house prices have gone down because everyone is taking a job somewhere else, with Boeing or Lockheed and they are selling their house." Sitting beside him is his friend and former colleague Jeff Felver. His next job will be to decommission Atlantis when it returns from its final mission. It will also be his last job with the US space agency. "I got a lot of friends that are in the same boat," he told me. "But we're going to get through this." Bittersweet time Fifty miles up the road - towards the Kennedy Space Center, Jerry Mulberry helps his wife run a shop selling space memorabilia. He is folding commemorative T-shirts for the tourists due to arrive to witness the final launch. Two months ago he was a quality control engineer on the space shuttle programme. "It's a sad and a happy time," he tells me. Happy because the launch of the final mission is a chance to celebrate the achievements of a fleet that local people have come to know and love. But, says Mr Mulberry, it is sad because in a month's time, the US will be reliant on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Among the customers in the shop is a scientist visiting from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Mark Hubbard is likely to keep his job but he is concerned that neither Nasa, nor the US administration has a clear plan for a replacement to the shuttle. "My friends and family are always asking me 'what's next?' And I say we're not sure," he says ruefully. "It's a question we (at Nasa) all have. We are wondering about the vision for the space programme and where we're headed now. There's a tenuous feeling about what the future of our space programme is." As the astronauts arrive to prepare for one last mission, it's a bittersweet moment for residents on Florida's Space Coast: On 8 July they, like many across the world, will be celebrating the achievements of a much loved friend. But they will be left wondering whether the best years of human space travel now lie now the past. Perhaps Republicans and Democrats should have been doing a whole lot better job as of decades ago, such as their not having perpetrated that multi-decade cold-war would have been a good idea. That's right, they all pretty much lied to us, and the average American was so poorly educated and otherwise dumbfounded past the point of no return that we got snookered by those of our own kind. http://www.wanttoknow.info/ http://translate.google.com/# Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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On Jun 22, 8:09*pm, "Sam Harddrive" wrote:
I wouldn't worry about it. *Major powers in the world are on the verge of collapse and third world countries are either on the brink of war with the major powers or each other. *It's about to get a lot worse..... but there will be relief once the Creator of the universe arrives in the wink of an eye. *Only a matter of time now. Your can thank the conservatives for 6 years of running the country into the ground by using the the taxpayers money as their private bank and funding Wall Street's gambling addition. We certainly wouldn't want to regulate Wall Street, now that they shown they are will to give Richard Fuld a $480 million dollar salary for bankrupting Lehman Bros, and putting the economy is in crisis. When it was suggested that the Lehman Brothers' top people forgo multi-million dollar bonuses to "send a strong message to both employees and investors that management is not shirking accountability for recent performance." Lehman Brothers Investment Management Director George Herbert Walker IV dismissed the proposal, going so far as to actually apologize to other members of the Lehman Brothers executive committee for the idea of bonus reduction having been suggested. Remember the idiots that are driving the country into insolvency are todays most important conservatives AND directly benefited from AIG/LehmanBros/ MorganStanleys behavior. |
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"yourmommycalledandsaidbehave" wrote in message ... "Your can thank the conservatives for 6 years of running the country into the ground by using the the taxpayers money as their private bank and funding Wall Street's gambling addition. We certainly wouldn't want to regulate Wall Street, now that they shown they are will to give Richard Fuld a $480 million dollar salary for bankrupting Lehman Bros, and putting the economy is in crisis. When it was suggested that the Lehman Brothers' top people forgo multi-million dollar bonuses to "send a strong message to both employees and investors that management is not shirking accountability for recent performance." Lehman Brothers Investment Management Director George Herbert Walker IV dismissed the proposal, going so far as to actually apologize to other members of the Lehman Brothers executive committee for the idea of bonus reduction having been suggested. Remember the idiots that are driving the country into insolvency are todays most important conservatives AND directly benefited from AIG/LehmanBros/ MorganStanleys behavior." I agree, conservatives are just as guilty, if not more so, than liberals. In fact, both parties are at fault, in a stalemate, and while they debate over silly things like Weiner's weiner, the country continues to go downhill. A civil war happened once. Whether or not it will ever happen again is unknown, but the "conditioning" of American people is dwindling fast. It is only a matter of time before something happens. I used to be conservative. I voted for Bush the first time, but after he got us into two unnecessary wars and had the nerve to dance around at some of the press meetings, while American soldiers were being killed, that ended my respect for him. Obama hasn't helped any either, but I wonder if anyone could at this point. The problem with a stalemate. |
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NASA, what happens when you squander money on the ISS turkey and global warming scams
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:25:02 -0700 (PDT),
columbiaaccidentinvestigation wrote: On Jun 22, 9:23*am, "$27 TRILLION to pay for Kyoto" wrote:"... "It's a question we (at Nasa) all have. We are wondering about the vision for the space programme and where we're headed now." what are the Republican candidates' views on the future of NASA? Invade Iran; invade Korea (again); no-bid contracts for Halburton; increased taxes for the extremely poor; land mines of the Mexican border. But sane Republicans such as myself are working hard to return the party to sanity. |
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