It is nice to see successes of NASA for a change. Hopefully, NASA's just in a slump now and we'll see more grand successes like the Mars rovers. First thing is first, lets bridge the shuttle gap with a Soyuz (spelling?) like craft for the purpose of moving materials and people to the space station so we can get that finished. Then, while thats happening they need keep working on designs for longer range reusable veichles like a hybrid between the Apollo setup and the shuttle so we can start working on reaching Mars and maybe hitting the moon again. I think there is still alot of geologic information we can gleen from the moon, especially if we can just drill down a little further. Along with the reusable "mothership" like craft should be smaller, cheaper one time delivery units assembled onsite at the spacestation using materials shipped up in small quantities with other cargo/passengers to the space station. These would be to drop off equipment need for experiments and studies on the moon/mars.
But, I'm sure NASA knows what they're doing and I have no doubt they'll accomplish their goals.
Why not have the machine preprogrammed with a list of common phrases, ect. that you can select in english and it'll speak in a phrase in Arabic prechecked by a professional translator back at the factory and use the voice translater as a backup function for extreme/uncommon situations?
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It is nice to see successes of NASA for a change. Hopefully, NASA's just in a slump now and we'll see more grand successes like the Mars rovers. First thing is first, lets bridge the shuttle gap with a Soyuz (spelling?) like craft for the purpose of moving materials and people to the space station so we can get that finished. Then, while thats happening they need keep working on designs for longer range reusable veichles like a hybrid between the Apollo setup and the shuttle so we can start working on reaching Mars and maybe hitting the moon again. I think there is still alot of geologic information we can gleen from the moon, especially if we can just drill down a little further. Along with the reusable "mothership" like craft should be smaller, cheaper one time delivery units assembled onsite at the spacestation using materials shipped up in small quantities with other cargo/passengers to the space station. These would be to drop off equipment need for experiments and studies on the moon/mars. But, I'm sure NASA knows what they're doing and I have no doubt they'll accomplish their goals.
Why not have the machine preprogrammed with a list of common phrases, ect. that you can select in english and it'll speak in a phrase in Arabic prechecked by a professional translator back at the factory and use the voice translater as a backup function for extreme/uncommon situations?