The end of an era...

Jul 08, 2011 14:57

I did get to watch the final space shuttle launch on my iPhone via NASA mobile streaming service ( Read more... )

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rhonan July 9 2011, 04:44:20 UTC
Yeah, right. We have a president the fascists call a socialist, who acts like Republican fiscal conservatives used to, and said president has said he has no problem stealing from current and future retirees, if that is what it takes to keep the Republicans from destroying the economy through a government default. Do you really even think something as rational as manned spaceflight is possible in this climate?

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chiropteraclan July 9 2011, 12:29:37 UTC
My future f-i-l and I were talking about this yesterday afternoon. He believes that what will happen is something like this. The US will almost completely kill the NASA program, at least for all public purposes anyway. A decade or so will go by, and then all of a sudden, we will figure out that China has built a space station on the moon or something. Then OH NOES! The US will kick the program back to life and decide to get very competitive again.

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