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Neil Armstrong To NASA: You're Embarrassing
astroengine writes "Neil Armstrong, Apollo legend and outspoken critic of NASA's current direction for human spaceflight, was joined by three other space experts to address Congress on Thursday. It wasn't pretty. Amongst the other criticisms was Armstrong's tough statement: 'For a country that has invested so much for so long to achieve a leadership position in space exploration and exploitation, this condition is viewed by many as lamentably embarrassing and unacceptable.' He might have a point, but Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, suggested the shuttles should be brought out of retirement to fill the U.S. manned spaceflight gap — a suggestion that probably rolled some eyeballs."
many government programs that are not essential to survival should be either scrapped and dismantled or shelved until the debt is paid off and better economic times come, and NASA is one that should be shelved, maybe in the future newer tech will make gaining escape velocity more cost effective , and the space shuttle is like your uncle's old smoking oldsmobile 98 with the dents all down one side, (send it in the junk yard) it was nice a couple of decades ago but it is now showing its age...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
America is becoming a 3rd-world country (propably a lot like Brazil) and will have a 3rd-world space program, i.e. none at all.
Basically America committed suicide.
But it's too late now, maybe the Chinese will pick up the ball, who knows.