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NASA Vets & Administration Clash Over Moon Plans
mattnyc99 writes "There's a serious feud brewing this week over the Bush administration's plan for a manned mission to the Moon as an eventual stepping stone to Mars. The Planetary Society, a top group of former mission managers, space-based scientists and NASA astronauts argues, is set to rebuke the Moon plan at a conference next month in favor of hopskotching an asteroid on the way to the Red Planet. Agency chief Michael Griffin issued an abnormally strong response to the society, calling it an overly political criticism of Bush for a plan that he says was 'the best legislative guidance NASA has ever had.' Either way, it's clear that the stars are aligning for the whole space race to be reconsidered as a new administration steps into the White House. So far Clinton and Obama (who just added his) are the only contenders with space proposals."
I'm sure they can find a good movie studio to shoot both projects
That's no moon... that's an overused joke.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Wait a minute, you're offering a compromise and speaking as if there were a middle ground and not just two extremes. You and your views have no place in politics.
My ass. The best guidance NASA ever had was when John F. Kennedy sent the United States to the moon.
This "guidance" is nothing more than the best idea a stupid chimp could come up with at the time to try to ride Kennedy's coattails.
As with just about anything Bush, going to the moon again is pretty stupid. What's the purpose? Hell, all we would need to do is just build a few new Saturn V's, a new LEM or two, and another couple of Lunar Rovers. We have all the plans and we know they work.
Wasting the time and money on doing something we did almost 40 years ago is typical for our diminutive presidenter.
Someone put him back on a Segway and hand him a pretzel.
Or Slashdot for that matter.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
It won't be a windy day in Arizona, this time.
But, when I re-read the tag, I saw:
NASA, Vets & Administration Clash Over Moon Plans
I guess monkeys or apes will go on the mock runs... They'll return (after 5,125 years of suspended animalization), and find... Cornelius? Or, maybe a Charlton Heston statue half-buried in older New York...
Or, they'll find the Land of the Lost, with millions of sexually-incompatible Sleetaks groveling all over the Earth.
I think the NASA part will be: Continuous audio piping of "Hey Hey, we're the Monkeys!...."
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
well maybe when Virgin Galactic starts going to the moon NASA can just hitch a ride
I was really wondering wat vetenarians had to do with missions to Mars. Does NASA plan to send animals along with the ride? Maybe for fresh milk and eggs? Of is it just an experiment to send live-stock up there to see what the influence of zero-gravity has on such animals?
Then it dawned upon me. This is a US site. A vet is something entirely different there.
Bush and his administration has been working for middle east peace since the start of his first term.
Ah, so that's why he started a war there.