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WASHINGTON — America's once clear dominance in space is eroding as other nations, including China, Iran and North Korea, step up their activities, a panel of experts told the House subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Thursday.
"Others are catching up fast,'' said Marty Hauser, vice president for Washington operations at the Space Foundation, an advocacy organization headquarters in Colorado Springs. "Of particular note over the past decade is the emergence of China's human spaceflight capabilities.''
Russia now leads the world in space launches. China recently became the thir
Has space fight / exploration become a dead issue among the American people ? Do the American people realize just what the ramifications would be for losing there top rank as a leading expert in space exploration ?
Originally posted by Max_TO
Has space fight / exploration become a dead issue among the American people ? Do the American people realize just what the ramifications would be for losing there top rank as a leading expert in space exploration ?
Why is funding for space looked at as a waist of money by many people ?
NASA is broken
The only thing that would make this ok in my mind would be the event that there is some supper top secret space program that renders NASA irrelevant.
Originally posted by AshleyD
reply to post by Max_TO
The only thing that would make this ok in my mind would be the event that there is some supper top secret space program that renders NASA irrelevant.
That's actually what I'm sitting here thinking. It would seem likely the United States government has some top secret projects going on. They must know something and are up to more than just shuttle orbits and Mars rovers.
Think of it along the lines of government/military aircraft. They finally release information once the technology is obsolete. But by the time we hear of it, it's old technology. The government does this quite often and will only present something, that generally is amazing, that we never knew existed but was in use for 50 years.
Or perhaps think along the lines of some UFO sightings possibly being top secret U.S. space vessels?
[edit on 11/20/2009 by AshleyD]