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US Space Program - Space Force
Any comments on the direction the US Space program is going, and is it
going any where? Mike |
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The United States is still leading the rest of the world in space
exploration - for the present. No doubt the Chinese, Japanese, and others will be at the heels of the US for years to come. Without these worthy competiters, I'm afraid the US president, would easily allow NASA to sink into miserable funding levels, ignorant of what space exploration does for the economy and human life in general. The Russians have been reduced to a support extension of the US, but fortunately, one which is capable of standing on its own. |
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On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:25:31 -0500, "R.Glueck"
wrote: I'm afraid the US president, would easily allow NASA to sink into miserable funding levels, ignorant of what space exploration does for the economy and human life in general. I don't like the current president at all, for many reasons irrelevant to this newsgroup. However, he does seem to support the space program. He is the one who put together the plan to establish a base on the Moon and send an expedition to Mars. It may be that this was all just window dressing, but the programs are going forward (if underfunded). I haven't heard of any of the presidential candidates mentioning a position on the space program. Dav Vandenbroucke davanden at cox dot net |
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The upcoming plans by ESA, NASA and the Russians to go to Mars is
promising. There is much sharing of information and in all likelihood it will be an international effort, with the lead as well as the lion's share of the costs going to NASA. Pres. Bush has been a strong proponent of space and the current plans to go back to the moon as a stepping-stone to Mars is well thought out. There are now talks of expanding a military force in space to keep a strong US presense, and the likely choice will be the Air Force as they have had the role since it's inception (much to the chagrin of the Navy. Much will have to happen and a viable threat in space would have to exist before a US Space Force is created (and I am sure the US Navy would fight that as they would anything that takes space $ away from them). More than likely the USAF Space Command would get more money and duties, perhaps leading a path one day for a US Space Corps to evole, still under the auspices of the Air Force. BUT, until there is a viable space threat, it remains much debate only. Star Trek remains fiction only. -- Message posted using http://www.talkaboutscience.com/grou...ace.moderated/ More information at http://www.talkaboutscience.com/faq.html |
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