Being surpassed by an ambitious Chinese space program is yet another failure of the current Bush/Cheney/McCain GOP administration. So many balls have been dropped at the hands of George Bush and his crooked cronies. Oh, and the Nasa budget? It’s been described as a “Mess”. Well, at least the media won’t be covering this story too closely. It would just remind us all how utterly BROKE our country has become under the current MisLeadership.
Nothing says POWNED like China flush with cash getting into the space business. I should take heart, though. I can see the moon from my backyard, so that makes me an astronaut, according to GOP thinking.
Gawd! I will be so happy when those clowns are finally out of office and sent packing.
Surpassed by China in space exploration?
Are you really that memory challenged?
Walk in space, we did a long time ago. News Flash RV, we’ve been to that Moon you are gazing at too. We even have a permanent space presence and reusable vehicles that trucks parts up to the international space station and will repair the most advanced telescope the world has ever had, it’s called Hubble. Which they are going up there to repair and update very soon and they are going to walk in space too. We even have a back up shuttle that’s sitting on the pad, just in case they get into trouble when they’re there.
Dropped what ball?
Carl, Careful how you address me. I am astronaut material, doncha know!
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Interesting take. What exactly have we accomplished in the space program over the last 8 years? And if you don’t mind, if you could include some links to back up your claims, that would be really helpful.
when I get home from mom’s birthday dinner I’ll be happy to if I’m not too late getting home.
Hope they didn’t pack any Chinese milk or candy on this trip…
Those Chinese astronauts are probably not in danger from defective Chinese tires or poison pet food.
But they need to watch out for that poison Chinese toothpaste.
How many Chinese slaves does it take to put three Chinamen into space?
How much Bejing polution does it take to put three Chinamen into space? Dig those crazy face masks.
Don’t get me started on Chinese religious persecution.
Red, nice post, I like that you are an astronaut. I’m an austronaut too.
Before I head off to document the past 8 years of NASA’s great work, because it will take some time to put down even the majority of it.
What do you call someone who is in an academy to learn a discipline like at West Point or the Air Force Academy?
They are a _________ ?
If one were astronaut material and would have to go through similar training
Then perhaps, one going through the extensive schooling for the space program would be a Space _______ ?
I couldn’t pass that one up 😉
Hey, you’re the one who said you were astronaut material…
Thanks Anonyms and congratulations to you!
Carl, I was at CVS and it occured to me that I’d be much better at heading up the FDA, so my astronaut career had to come to a close. My close friends call me Pharm Goddess 😉
I hope you don’t feel obligated to work too hard on ginning up a big post for this thread. We’ve done a couple of important things during the 8 years and I am sure you will unearth them, however, because we have “no money for” Nasa, we have a lot of stuff that needs replacement in order to be safe, so missions are not happening.
Contrast that to our Owners, the Chinese, with all their brand spanking new equipment and ambitious schedule. Heck, even Putin is putting space tourists up in the atmosphere for millions of dollars a ride.
We’re Power Owned – Powned. Doing a heck of a job, Bushie!
Nay nay, it’s our fault as consumers of cheap slave made goods. I don’t buy things made in PRC if it’s avoidable. That’s where they get most of that money.
I figured I would post it up on my own and polish it. Your request was a good one, it may just take a little time to do right, but I intend to. Let’s all enjoy something we actually do right for a change. NASA is a great program and one of the few expenditures we make the are extra-Constitutional that I think make great sense.
You get credit for the inspiration too.
Thank you
BTW yes it’s brand new but many years behind in the learning curve.
Readers. While some may question the cost of our space program I can speak form personal experience of one of its many benefits. My mom had a heart pacemaker installed in her chest perhaps 20 plus years ago that was a direct by-product of the NASA space program. While she has since passed her life was extended for nearly 20 years due in part to that device. How many people today have pacemakers living a full and productive life?
I hope that you are not painting me as complaining about COST. I believe we should have continued to invest in our space program, instead of letting it deteriorate. I agree with you Larry, there are many excellent products and developments that have come to be as a result of space travel solutions. Freeze dried food, velcro, and a whole lot more. Maybe Carl will elaborate.
Carl, when I look at the space program, I went directly to google and typed in Nasa and current problems and there are quite a number of important issues that have mired down our space program. I don’t think anyone is trying to diminished the important role that our space program has played. MY point is that we’re broke.
Mommy and Daddy took up smoking expensive crack and going to Vegas every weekend and have spent all the rent money. Slave and Commie nations now OWN us.
http://www.nasaproblems.com/
Hey Carl, I got pretty angry when I found out that we are outsourcing our program to RUSSIA. I know, I know… it’s not patriotic to point out the absolute robbery and destruction of our country and some of its best features under George Bush, but I just can’t help myself – his determined destruction has touched so many things.
This was written just a couple of weeks ago:
The crescendo of warning signs of the impending NASA crisis may have reached the point of unavoidable disaster. Former astronaut and senator John Glenn’s call to evade dependence on foreign launch service by continuing the space shuttle operations is not being heard over the roar of jack hammers dismantling the shuttle external tank assembly line. With the loss of shuttle external tanks goes the only avenue for escaping a decade or more of reliance on foreign governments for this nation’s human space transportation needs.
The development problems with the shuttle replacement, the Ares I Orion have continued to mushroom and many are without viable solutions. NASA has admitted there is only a 65 percent probability that the first space station crew rotation flight will occur in March 2016. That’s three months after the scheduled retirement of station. Continuing space station after 2016 will add a minimum $3 billion per year to NASA’s budget for operations and transportation cost. The continued development of the Orion crew rotation module is absurd. The lunar transport launcher, Ares V has already demonstrated that its development problems will mirror that of the ill conceived Ares I. The recent third failure of Space X’s Falcon I launch vehicle is another warning sign that NASA’s COTS program is no solution. Congress and President Bush have rejected attempts to increase NASA’s budget. There is no significant public support for increasing funding for NASA’s Constellation program. Space station is already sending warning signs that its electrical system may fail and without shuttle the solar arrays cannot be replaced. Massive layoffs cannot be avoided. There is a diminishing escape avenue out of this dire quagmire… President Bush must issue a Presidential Directive stopping the dismantling of the shuttle external assembly line. The goals and schedule for the Constellation program must be refocused and NASA must get out of the launch operations business…PRIVATIZE THE SPACE SHUTTLE FLEET!
This critical letter requesting the President’s action to avoid the crisis languishes somewhere in the President’s Office of Domestic Policy. Like WMD, the President’s decision to decommission the shuttle in 2010 and incur a four years dependence on the Russian government for crew access to space station was based flawed information. Will the demise of this nation’s human presence in space be added to this President’s legacy?
This is a great example of misunderstanding and miscommunications. Some of the engineers at NASA have for sometime been bitching at management over this issue. I even provided links with an earlier post (I think) that partially addressed this issue. They have been overruled by management, that is not of a solid engineering background. (Bring back Chris Craft or someone like him) IF they had listened they never would have had this problem or there’s a high probability of that at least. I don’t know who is responsible for hiring the head of NASA, yet but I’ll find that one out too. They have had many political issues there recently this is but one of them.
Don’t blame Bush for funding issues. Congress spends the money in this country not the POTUS.
But that was not even close to your original post RV
Hey, I’m trying to write a post for you and keep getting interupted with new posts and other IRL stuff like police helo over the house and three gunshots fired, jeesh can’t a guy get some work done? 😉
You’re absolutely right Carl, it isn’t that NASA isn’t on a priority list it’s that there will not be enough money in this economy in the near term and really hasn’t been for some time. I liked the way Obama put it in the debate “Well, there are a range of things that are probably going to have to be delayed. We don’t yet know what our tax revenues are going to be. The economy is slowing down, so it’s hard to anticipate right now what the budget is going to look like next year.” I appreciate that he gave specific programs that have to be done to turn this ship of state too. The more I read his words the more I appreciate how he looks at things.
If you fill the government with political appointees who couldnt have been promoted into those positions I think you get these kinds of scuffles between the people who actually do the work and the people who actually make the decisions.
I don’t think all of them were apointees.
I will hopefully learn more while putting together this NASA Post, but it’s been a busy day IRL here at home and nothing much has gotten done for the past 8 hrs on it. I get 10 mins at a time and intereupted again…. grrrr
I want to post this one, I love NASA always have. My earliest memory is watching a rocket launch on our old round screen B/W Phillco. It has always been a warm, fuzzy, happy place. Know what I mean? I’m a space and sci-fi fan as well. It’s all about looking to the future and hope for all of us. It’s mankinds first steps out of the nursery…
9/29/08
http://www.localpolitics.meetup.com/97
Democrats willingly bought and sold to Communist China
– Democrat Congreswoman Loretta Sanchez was one
of them , but you’d never see Republican candidate
Rosie Avial on the list –
The Chinese astronaut in the middle in the pre-launch photo of the first Chinese spacewalk launch looks all smiles, but they are far from innocent. Think about it : The ‘ No standards , no morals ‘ Democrat Party Bill Clinton helped the Chinese missle program along when in 1996, he perverted the Commerce Deptartment rules, even against the protest of the Defense department by signing an executive waiver allowing Hughes to help the Chinese harden their ballistic missles gainst vibration, sending the Chinese on their way stronger militarily.
It should be remembered that the United States space program was built on launching our space capsules on the top of then current ballistic missles. Thank you Bill Clinton for helping the Chinese into space sooner than later.
Hence, the Chinese army General’s dispersement of campaign
cash to the Democrat Party, including $ 1,000.00 to Democrat
Congreswoman Loretta Sanchez, who said about Bill Clinton in the Orange County Register the day after the Starr report came out, ” He’s been a good President. ” It’s no wonder folks all over the country may wonder,
” What planet does Loretta Sanchez live on ?
Former Reagan speech writer Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of Orange County California wrote then an Op-Ed in the Orange County Register rightly calling Bill Clinton a traitor for writing the waiver. About a year later, we find out Clinton lied to the public on national television when he waved his fickle finger of fate inour faces saying, ” I did not have sex with that woman,
Monica Lewinsky. ”
I’ll vote for Republican Rosie Avila for U.S. Congress 47 th Dist. in Orange County, who is running against Democrat Loretta Sanchez.
We know Rosie Avial is a person loyal to her country, faithful, honorable, and intelligent; a stellar candidate who cannot be bought by Chinese communists.
The Chinese would not even think of trying.
– David K.