Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
orbit.
> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going
> to land on Mars.
Let me know when an _human_ lands in Mars because
until then, NASA a waste of time, money and effort that
only serves as corporate welfare for the aerospace
industry.
On Jul 30, 4:42 pm, RichA <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
> Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
> after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
> American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
> begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
> orbit.
RichA wrote:
> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
> Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
> after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
> American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
> begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
> orbit.
It will be a great achievement, but I doubt that it will impact the election. How many Americans even know, let alone care, about the two rovers that explored the martian surface for years? One of them is still in operation!
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, dave wrote:
> RichA wrote:
>> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
>> Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
>> after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
>> American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
>> begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
>> orbit.
> It will be a great achievement, but I doubt that it will impact the election. > How many Americans even know, let alone care, about the two rovers that > explored the martian surface for years? One of them is still in operation!
Was that the first one, called "Sojourner"? No apparently that one only lasted three months in 1997. But it got a lot of coverage.
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Tom wrote:
> On Jul 30, 4:42 pm, RichA <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
>> Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
>> after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
>> American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
>> begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
>> orbit.
I saw something the other day of one university building some part of the telescope that will replace the hubble.
There was some fuss over where the Canadarm is on display, now that it's out of service. I think it was only a letter in the paper, complaining it should be in Ottawa rather than where it is here in Quebec.
The first Canadian astronaut in space got time on the radio and tv recently when Sally Ride died, people wanting his comments.
No word on someone building a rocket so we don't have to leech off other sto get into space.
> On Jul 30, 4:42 pm, RichA <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
>> Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
>> after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
>> American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
>> begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
>> orbit.
> On 7/30/12 8:25 PM, Tom wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 4:42 pm, RichA <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
>>> Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
>>> after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
>>> American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
>>> begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
>>> orbit.
NASA's whistling in the graveyard too. Just think, if they hadn't spent $180 billion on that orbiting white elephant make-work project for out of work Russian military scientists, the ISS, they never would have had to scrap the Shuttle, and go begging to Russians and commie Chinamen to launch things.
Michael Black wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, dave wrote:
>> RichA wrote:
>>> Cross your fingers, $2.5 billion worth of rover is going to land on
>>> Mars. This will be an enormous boost for the Obama administration
>>> after all the talk of how he's gutted NASA. It will also show how
>>> American can still do the job of exploring space, instead of just
>>> begging, hat-in-hand to Russia now when it needs people put into
>>> orbit.
>> It will be a great achievement, but I doubt that it will impact the
>> election. How many Americans even know, let alone care, about the two
>> rovers that explored the martian surface for years? One of them is
>> still in operation!
> Was that the first one, called "Sojourner"? No apparently that one only
> lasted three months in 1997. But it got a lot of coverage.
Not at all, I _want_ a viable space program that benefits humanity
but my definition of "viable" is people on other planets, not pissing
away tax dollars on growing tadpoles in low-Earth-orbit or tinker-toy
rovers crawling around a crater.
The #1 reason for a space program, in facf the ONLY reason for
a space program, is to send humans to other worlds and we've
had that ability since the 1970's.
