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- blindhammer, on 11/05/2009, -0/+24JFK:
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - valkyries, on 11/05/2009, -3/+17the white house spends 3 billion dollars on cash for clunkers but wont even spend a billion to help send man back to the Moon.
- Jeff901, on 11/05/2009, -0/+10every country should team up (it won't and can't happen because of politics currently) to share technology and costs....MANKIND, not countries should stride toward space exploration. We can do so much more together than we can do on our own!
- retreadd68, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9and the sad thing is 90% of normal people would be cool with this but all our governments don't like it.
- LopezElGuapo, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9"...humans will be on Mars before 2020..."
No, no they will not. We can't pull our heads out of our asses fast enough to do it. Seriously - it took almost 10 years to get to the moon with a very dedicated and motivated public space program. We probably couldn't finish the argument about how to best get to Mars before 2020, let alone decide/design/build a system to do it.
Doesn't mean I like it, but we need a serious wake-up call before our politicians will focus our energy on this. Like if the Chinese put a permanent, manned, ICBM-destroying laser base in orbit, or India puts people on the moon, something like that might get our collective attention. - badqat, on 11/05/2009, -1/+9Why do we go back to the moon? Unless we plan on staying there, I say we have no reason to go. Space funding is limited, and it makes more sense to be investigating as distantly as we can.
Mars is a much more fantastic target, and should be our goal. - Velocity14, on 11/05/2009, -1/+7Let's get crackin' on terraforming technologies.
- DarkRellik, on 11/05/2009, -4/+9You silly Americans should finally realize the superiority Soviet space program and invest in the Soyuz development! =P
- avsbst, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5So why did NASA ever go to the moon in the first place?
Why did Hillary and Norgay ever scale Everest?
Why did Amundsen ever go to the South Pole?
Why did Magellan ever sail around the world?
Just because there are no visible benefits does not mean we should halt exploration. Through exploration humanity has come this far and only through exploration will we continue to advance. - xMrAx, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5If NASA had the same proportion of funding as it did when we went to the moon we would be colonizing those planets by now.
I mean come on who doesn't want to travel in space. - Maddoktor2, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4http://www.directlauncher.com/
- anakast, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Actually, that may be a good reason to actually colonize other planets.
- badqat, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5I think that it makes more sense to do it from earth orbit. However, whatever way proves to be the winner, humans will be on Mars before 2020.
- badqat, on 11/05/2009, -4/+8They need to be thinking shuttle-like utility, while able to deliver missions to Mars.
The Ares is probably not going to provide either of those things.
I think they ought to consider a new shuttle-like program to do just that. And technically, you could refuel once you were clear of the atmosphere, and use earth to sling shot to Mars. - retreadd68, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5but America never did split into 15 parts, and hows it political nonsense to want to have freedom?
- retreadd68, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4I actually hope a ton of other country's will start planting their flags into the moon so we can get "worried" about our future in space. before we know it we'd be on mars.
- valkyries, on 11/05/2009, -1/+4Well the silly Americans keep bailing out the Russian space program....
- valkyries, on 11/05/2009, -2/+5its gonna be much easyer to get a heavy cargo load from the moon to mars then from earth straight to mars.
- asskicker32, on 11/05/2009, -2/+5I love this new 1-X Robot, I mean Rocket. The Ares 1-X is my friend...
- erkokite, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3The space program of the soviet union begs to differ.
- erkokite, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Obama's hardly even left, let alone a socialist. I do not think you know what socialism is. You dumbass troll. FFS.
- govsucks, on 11/05/2009, -2/+4I think it would be amazing to look up into the night sky and see the flicker of city lights on the surface of the moon. Tell ya what, why don't we make it voluntary. You get to choose where your tax dollars go, space exploration, social programs or wars.
I can tell you where mine would go. - DarkRellik, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2You actually think you have freedom? Freedom isn't having a choice, but not being told what to do at all. We might be given "choices" on things that affect our lives in very small ways, but most of our life we have others telling us what to do, how to act and how to behave. American style "freedom" is essentially living a dream repeated enough times that everyone thinks it's real. And as the master of propaganda (now social engineering) Goebbels put it, "once you repeat something enough people will hold it as truth."
- LackyB, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3Your membership to the Science is Cool club has been revoked.
It boggles my mind that people don't think everything about space is awesome. Space IS the future of humanity. This planet ain't gonna cut it forever. - Logicexe, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2"its gonna be much easyer to get a heavy cargo load from the moon to mars then from earth straight to mars."
Yeah but you first have to get the cargo from the Earth to the Moon. So instead of lifting up from the Earth and heading straight to Mars you propose stopping off at the moon for some reason and then lifting off again. That adds just another gravity well you need to climb out of before you get on your way to Mars. - thebreach, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1I am sad to see the Shuttle go, but it is good to see NASA get back to basics. Just make what is more or less the same rocket that we have in many ways already built before that can get our asses back to the Moon and stop reliance on the Russians to resupply the ISS. And hopefully Ares will lead us to an eventual Mars mission, even if indirectly.
As they proved the Shuttles were tough to service to the point where the budget was too thick to keep developing the Shuttles replacement, keeping the aging fleet around which as ended in cataclysmic failures more than once. - Moralogic, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Wrong target, you too easily forget the senate and house.
- wannaBdug, on 11/04/2009, -3/+4It could always make a nice piece of art. Or I bet someone would buy it on eBay.
- thebreach, on 11/05/2009, -1/+2Seems like some kind of global space agency should be more than possible. We already teamed up with several countries to build the most complicated machine ever built by Mankind: the LHC
- GunWraith, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1In my opinion, NASA needs to focus on what they do best, robotic scientific exploration, and give up manned exploration and development to private industry (With the exception of ISS personnel).
Imagine what could be done if the funds for the Constellation program were distributed as grants to the private space sector like SpaceX or Virgin Galactic! - tushyd, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1I really hope we don't hear an Obama speech like:
"We choose to stay on the Earth, not because it is hard, but because it's easy" - Jeff901, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Look around, except for a few fundamentalists, the PEOPLE get along with People, the governments are where the problems lie...
- Moralogic, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1He is only one piece of a huge puzzle, a decent sized one, but still only one piece. There are dozens of piece that if they wouldn't have went into place, it wouldn't work. He was one of the most important ones, but he alone is not solely responsible for the moon missions.
The narrow mindedness of some idiots out there baffles me on solely blaming the president. Bush wasn't the only one to blame in the last 8 years, Obama isn't the only one down, Clinton wasn't the only one who made HUGE leaps for our country during his presidency, Reagan wasn't the only one doing dirty tricks and corporate deals during his, and he actually did almost nothing that he gets praised for actually.
It is far more than 1 person, and if you can't mentally put that together, I wouldn't doubt if you were a YEC or a NWO believer. - gkiltz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Robotics are the way to go!
The best ones can last linger than a human lifetime.
We need to have a valid reason to send humans. - retreadd68, on 11/05/2009, -2/+2or a war we don't need or raptors that spend more time on the ground then in the air and have no purpose :(
- danielttt, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1moronlogic...So JFK had nothing to do with the moon mission. I'm right ON target.
- duzey, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1Right meow?
- JnCoBoB, on 11/05/2009, -2/+2We have to go back to the moon to figure out long-term habitation before we go to Mars. I agree that Mars should be the target but the Moon is an necessary intermediate step.
- Moralogic, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1We can mine the moon for fuel more efficiently than on Earth in regards to sending something to orbit around Earth then to Mars. Though to match up on building the depot to gather these resources it may take multiple Mars missions, but who plans on only 1?
- cajungal, on 11/05/2009, -4/+3SOCIALISM is a very powerful vision killer.
Without vision and dreams, who can stretch their abilities?
Who will make the next great new product or new discovery without any incentive?
Why try when you get punished for succeeding?
What happens when a person is beaten down by the heavy weight of the government?
Welfare (redistribution of wealth), that’s what. When people have no hope of bettering themselves through the work of the hands or intellect, then they will just let the government sit in the drivers' seat and the people will just sit back and become slaves of the government. - RexOfRome, on 11/05/2009, -1/+0Me
- DarkRellik, on 11/05/2009, -4/+2The problem isn't because the science or equipment is faulty, it works well to this day. It's because you Americans had to prance around in Eastern Europe with your empty promises of "Freedom" and sprout your political nonsense and confused a lot of people. Could NASA survive in it's current form if the USA split into 15 parts?
- vickdigg, on 11/05/2009, -3/+0@Velocity14: We've been doing a darned good job of terraforming already. So much so, we'll be lucky to have a planet to live on, much less find another habitable place.
- danielttt, on 11/05/2009, -12/+6obama has no vision beyond socialism...he'll neuter the space agency
- daveydudely, on 11/05/2009, -9/+2I think once people figure out how to not screw up this particular planet so badly they could start thinking about going somewhere else,
Since neither the moon nor mars etc are habitable, excursions would be inextricably linked to the earth like a fetus to a mommy.
There's literally no point to local space travel at this point in time.
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