Reagan switched eight cabinet members the second time around, and Clinton switched seven. A lot of the time, though, they voluntarily resign- either because of too much pressure, or because they want to exit a winner, or a major disagreement, or something.
The beginning of the next Space Age? No offence, but 100 km does not really make a new Space Age. That's barely the height for a stable orbit. What would be more revolutionary is private corporations actually going to other bodies in the solar system, and preferably extracting resources or doing something useful.
NASA (and the public opinion driving it) are way too optomistic about the idea of life on Europa. Just because there's water (which is barely above freezing temperature, and lacking in the organic molecules required by life as we know it), there is no reason to assume any kind of life-forms. People are so eager to find other life, but it's not all that likely to happen... any really developed ecoystem would most likely be visible from space (like the green areas of Earth). So maybe NASA should pursue something more realistic...
No offence, but India has a lot of problems to deal with before they can become the next superpower. Their economy is far behind the United States, western Europe, and Japan in size, even though its population is much larger (over a billion now). This would be why a large fraction of the population is still dependent upon substinence agriculture (growing their own food just to feed themselves). Like a lot of people have said, this is why India should feel obligated to deal with their own problems before dealing with space research.
More importantly as far as superpower status is concerned, this means they don't have the massive economic might of the United States, or China, or the Soviet Union like it was twenty years ago. And also, despite the fact that NASA employs a lot of Indian people, and Dell bases its tech support there, the fact remains that India isn't nearly as technologically advanced as the United States or Russia are.
So I'm sorry to say it- it would be way cool, but India is not yet completed its ascendance to technical supremacy...
A one out of three success rate is- to be brutally honest- just a little pathetic. The moon probes back in the fifties and sixties had a much higher success rate. This is of course due to the shorter distance, lower delta v, and all that. But unless there's a higher success rate, it wouldnt really be feasible for a government to send people up there. Because of all those unreasonable demands of the astronauts (keep us alive, send us back to Earth, et cetera) a Mars mission would be prohibitively expensive... and there isn't the same political impetus from the olden days. Although if another space race develops against China, there may eventually be more interest.
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Reagan switched eight cabinet members the second time around, and Clinton switched seven. A lot of the time, though, they voluntarily resign- either because of too much pressure, or because they want to exit a winner, or a major disagreement, or something.
Alan Shepard did what? Copied what Yuri Gagarin had already done?
The beginning of the next Space Age? No offence, but 100 km does not really make a new Space Age. That's barely the height for a stable orbit. What would be more revolutionary is private corporations actually going to other bodies in the solar system, and preferably extracting resources or doing something useful.
NASA (and the public opinion driving it) are way too optomistic about the idea of life on Europa. Just because there's water (which is barely above freezing temperature, and lacking in the organic molecules required by life as we know it), there is no reason to assume any kind of life-forms. People are so eager to find other life, but it's not all that likely to happen... any really developed ecoystem would most likely be visible from space (like the green areas of Earth). So maybe NASA should pursue something more realistic...
No offence, but India has a lot of problems to deal with before they can become the next superpower. Their economy is far behind the United States, western Europe, and Japan in size, even though its population is much larger (over a billion now). This would be why a large fraction of the population is still dependent upon substinence agriculture (growing their own food just to feed themselves). Like a lot of people have said, this is why India should feel obligated to deal with their own problems before dealing with space research. More importantly as far as superpower status is concerned, this means they don't have the massive economic might of the United States, or China, or the Soviet Union like it was twenty years ago. And also, despite the fact that NASA employs a lot of Indian people, and Dell bases its tech support there, the fact remains that India isn't nearly as technologically advanced as the United States or Russia are. So I'm sorry to say it- it would be way cool, but India is not yet completed its ascendance to technical supremacy...
That new perfect number would have over 12.5 million digits, which would take a while to work out....
The ability to factor primes. Wow, that would be an amazing breakthrough indeed.
A one out of three success rate is- to be brutally honest- just a little pathetic. The moon probes back in the fifties and sixties had a much higher success rate. This is of course due to the shorter distance, lower delta v, and all that. But unless there's a higher success rate, it wouldnt really be feasible for a government to send people up there. Because of all those unreasonable demands of the astronauts (keep us alive, send us back to Earth, et cetera) a Mars mission would be prohibitively expensive... and there isn't the same political impetus from the olden days. Although if another space race develops against China, there may eventually be more interest.