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Goldin to Retire from NASA

Posted by michael on from the gone-fishing dept.

nervesmiffs writes: "Lots of people hated him. I believe he has been one of the truly great leaders of our time. He has completely turned NASA around during his 10 year tenure. Here's the retirement story." So if you were NASA's next director, what would you do with the agency? Men on Mars? Probes on Europa? Trans-warp drives?

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  1. Re:Mars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good job you salty malty foamy mother fucker!

  2. Given the current state of things by sith · · Score: 0, Troll

    Given the current administrations seeming hatred of all things research or science oriented, I think the better question is whether the next director will choose between Creative Ways to Kill Afghani's from Space (Operation CWKAS), or Creative Ways to Kill Iraqi's from Space (Operation CWKIS) ...

  3. What about the rape? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can't forget the rape!

  4. What would I do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Scrap it. NASA, that is.


    It's obvious that the American public doesn't want to spend it's precious "hard-earned" on junk like space exploration and colonization. They'd rather pump it into war toys, welfare (both corporate and otherwise) and other things. It's bound to get worse now with the War on--there'll be less and less money available for "frivolous" stunts like the Interntaional Space Station and the like, never mind a next-generation successor to the aging space shuttle or a manned Mars mission. And that's fine, if that's the way the public truly feels. So, keeping NASA lingering under an ever-shrinking budget is futile and pointless, and they should just pull the plug and forget the whole thing for now.


    I just hope that Joe Luchbucket is prepared to see the long-term decline of his country as other nations eventually overtake and surpass the US in space.

  5. Re:NASA should retire with him by vrmlknight · · Score: 0, Troll

    better yet send all the welfare recipients to mars

    --
    This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
  6. Re:Goldin is a moron by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    He is dead set against what I want most, that is cheap everyday access to space for the average human.

    And, out of curiosity, what do you think that average human is going to do in space?

    What you want is physically impossible. Stop watching so much Star Trek and come live in the real world. It's pretty nice, here.