Not really true. Even restrictions on moving a piece of equipment out of USA that's going to shot up to the space prevents what you are talking about.
Corporates always choose the cheapest way, if it is blasting something from Kazakhistan steps, that must be allowed.
Just to protect "American interests", USA alone prevents the mankind's dream. Go taikonauts go!
It is not expensive to put a man in space. Developing the technology is. On the other hand most of the technology is already more than 40 years old and most of it has already been forgotten. It can be said that USA has forgot more than Russians ever knew about getting a man in space.
What happened to this "know how"? It wasn't transferred to the "public" domain or even wasn't sold to other companies for money, just for the sake of "national security". Countries like India are penalized because they want an independent space program and they bought the know-how from Russia, until USA prevented Russia by blackmailing them.
You Americans only think of yourselves, highways, national defence... How many billions do you spend annually for national defence? 380 billion $$ was last year's budget. Mitra knows how much was spent from undercover budgets.
And total cost of NASA? Only a couple of billions and they spend most of the money for the sake of keeping their croonies in aviation business happy.
I have been reading a history book called The Space Shuttle Decision for some time because I wondered how they ended in that piece of crap and I can see that it wasn't the "dedicated young engineers" doing the work even in late 60s. You can see that NASA was a political tool from the start.
NASA was always ran by "politicians", from the start to the end. It was a political tool when it transferred from being NACA to NASA and it is still a political tool to spend more money.
Human space travel might have been managed in a much better way, no argument and definitely space science would be much better without NASA spending all its money on bureucracy and making contractors in Boeing etc. rich.
Read the NASA History books for their shame value. Although they do best to paint a rosy picture, if you can read the lines, you will be disgusted with NASA for the rest of your life.
Jin Roh was really stunning, such a dark and moody movie, such a good story.
With Hoshi Ko Noe (Voices of a distant star), it is one of the two animations I really loved especially just for the sake of story. If you haven't seen this one, please do.
I ran a Maximus based BBS on OS/2 for years, finally I had to kill it because there were hardly any users anymore. I had TradeWars installed as well!:-) It was fun! I even installed an OS/2 port of a mud. Those were the days...
>They could have rendezvoused with the ISS
>and waited for another shuttle to pick them up"
Oh yeah?
How sad the rocket scientists didn't think about this but you did.
Did you know that Columbia was the only space shuttle that is old and heavy enough -NOT- to be able to reach ISS with a reasonable payload? Why do you think this was the only shuttle missin that didn't dock with the ISS or launched a bigass scientific satellite? Because it lacked the capability.
Even if they were designated to dock with ISS, do you really think navigating in space is so easy? You are not travelling to the nearest Walmart in your car. Have you ever heard of "matching the vectors" and "delta V"?
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You call that a bad eyesight?
-11 on left eye, -10.5 on right, plus a little bit of astigmatism on both, unfortunately not in the same plane. And I am an amateur astronomer, I tend to see double stars all around the place!:-( (Also I spend upto 14-16 hours in front of a computer screen most of the days).
I always wondered about corrective surgery but I'm simply scared of it.:)
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Go Nadesico go!
Corporates always choose the cheapest way, if it is blasting something from Kazakhistan steps, that must be allowed.
Just to protect "American interests", USA alone prevents the mankind's dream. Go taikonauts go!
It is not expensive to put a man in space. Developing the technology is. On the other hand most of the technology is already more than 40 years old and most of it has already been forgotten. It can be said that USA has forgot more than Russians ever knew about getting a man in space.
What happened to this "know how"? It wasn't transferred to the "public" domain or even wasn't sold to other companies for money, just for the sake of "national security". Countries like India are penalized because they want an independent space program and they bought the know-how from Russia, until USA prevented Russia by blackmailing them.
You Americans only think of yourselves, highways, national defence... How many billions do you spend annually for national defence? 380 billion $$ was last year's budget. Mitra knows how much was spent from undercover budgets. And total cost of NASA? Only a couple of billions and they spend most of the money for the sake of keeping their croonies in aviation business happy.
I have been reading a history book called The Space Shuttle Decision for some time because I wondered how they ended in that piece of crap and I can see that it wasn't the "dedicated young engineers" doing the work even in late 60s. You can see that NASA was a political tool from the start.
NASA was always ran by "politicians", from the start to the end. It was a political tool when it transferred from being NACA to NASA and it is still a political tool to spend more money.
Human space travel might have been managed in a much better way, no argument and definitely space science would be much better without NASA spending all its money on bureucracy and making contractors in Boeing etc. rich. Read the NASA History books for their shame value. Although they do best to paint a rosy picture, if you can read the lines, you will be disgusted with NASA for the rest of your life.
Jin Roh was really stunning, such a dark and moody movie, such a good story. With Hoshi Ko Noe (Voices of a distant star), it is one of the two animations I really loved especially just for the sake of story. If you haven't seen this one, please do.
I ran a Maximus based BBS on OS/2 for years, finally I had to kill it because there were hardly any users anymore. I had TradeWars installed as well! :-) It was fun! I even installed an OS/2 port of a mud. Those were the days...
>They could have rendezvoused with the ISS >and waited for another shuttle to pick them up" Oh yeah? How sad the rocket scientists didn't think about this but you did. Did you know that Columbia was the only space shuttle that is old and heavy enough -NOT- to be able to reach ISS with a reasonable payload? Why do you think this was the only shuttle missin that didn't dock with the ISS or launched a bigass scientific satellite? Because it lacked the capability. Even if they were designated to dock with ISS, do you really think navigating in space is so easy? You are not travelling to the nearest Walmart in your car. Have you ever heard of "matching the vectors" and "delta V"? --... ..---
There is more 'wild' area in US than there is in Africa. I bet this doesn't count Sahara desert but still counts for the waste of land in USA...
You call that a bad eyesight? -11 on left eye, -10.5 on right, plus a little bit of astigmatism on both, unfortunately not in the same plane. And I am an amateur astronomer, I tend to see double stars all around the place! :-( (Also I spend upto 14-16 hours in front of a computer screen most of the days).
I always wondered about corrective surgery but I'm simply scared of it. :)