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Topic started on 14-12-2008 @ 07:15 PM by SuperSlovak
The exploration of space is often viewed as a luxury rather than a necessity and the NASA budget can become an easy target for cutbacks...

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If the ecomony keeps going downhill nasa might not even be able to afford to send a man to mars...
what a shame.


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reply posted on 14-12-2008 @ 07:56 PM by whaaa
reply to post by RFBurns


So the money spent on the shuttle program and the space station couldn't have been used for a Moon base? Please....

There is more to this than just economics and politics.
Somewhere there is a significant design flaw in NASA's overall space program approach; If not just overall bureaucratic ineptness just like in the rest of taxpayer funded govt. programs.



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reply posted on 14-12-2008 @ 08:08 PM by RFBurns
Originally posted by whaaa
reply to post by RFBurns


So the money spent on the shuttle program and the space station couldn't have been used for a Moon base? Please....


Did I say it couldnt have been used for a moonbase? Please read carfully what I do say and dont jump to conclusions. It certianly would have been fabulous if they did use the shuttle and the funds to go put a moonbase on the moon instead of dumping it into ISS. The shuttle, with very little modifications, could have been a perfect platform to go to and from a moonbase.

Originally posted by whaaa
There is more to this than just economics and politics.
Somewhere there is a significant design flaw in NASA's overall space program; If not just overall bureaucratic ineptness just like in the rest of taxpayer funded govt. programs.


Obviously. I did say that it is more than just a NASA problem. All those engineers, designers, scientists, managers, are not making the decisions on their own however. They are under the big G's thumb. What the big G-man says..goes. Again I did say it is not just a NASA problem, it is a political will and vision problem. Please study up on what occured to NASA and the space program in 73 and after Apollo 18 came home. It will definately give you the real reasons why there is no moonbase or manned missions back to the moon or out to mars.

While the politicians were sharing the ticker parades in NY when Apollo 18 came home, they were scrapping the Saturn 5 rocket, dismantling the entire infrastructure, letting go all the bright and incredible engineers and designers of the Apollo era who gave the space program the abilty to go to the moon when technology was not very advanced at all, yet it was done and done within less than 8 years begining in 61. Had NASA been allowed to continue, there is no doubt in my mind that we would have that moonbase and so much more, instead of all this war over oil, collapsed economy, banks failing, industries failing, massive job layoffs, and all the rest that this entire forum is so flooded with about these very problems.

It isnt rocket science to understand the reasons why there are so much problems today and why there is no moonbase or space industry.



Cheers!!!!

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reply posted on 14-12-2008 @ 10:01 PM by RFBurns
reply to post by SuperSlovak


Exactly! From program start, we were no where near the ability to send a man to the moon in 61. We could put a man up into orbit, bring him back down, and thats about it.

But when that challenge was given by Kennedy, that inspired the whole nation, and NASA, to strive for the goal, we developed hydrogen-oxygen rockets, huge lifting capabilty, interplanitary communications, inerplanitary navigation, spacesuits, telemetry aquisition systems, life support systems, power systems, CO2 removal systems, Earth to Lunar orbit and Lunar to Earth orbit techniques, soft landing techniques on the moon, return trajectory techniques, landing and recovery procedures, sheesh the list is comparable to Santa's gift list for the whole world! And we developed all those technologies in the 1960's!!! And we were there on the moon in 69.

But in 73, it all came to an end!! An abrupt end, and a tragic end. There is no doubt in my mind that today, in 2008 soon 2009, there would be moon bases and mars bases and a whole space based industrial infrastructure today, that would have millions of jobs, incomes, and most important of all..a real future.




Cheers!!!!

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