HowardWhy is the US Space Shuttle retiring?
February 8th 2010 00:46
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
US Space Shuttle
I have been thinking about the space program issue, and I think it is quite awful that the Space Shuttle is retiring. Now this is made even worse with the fact that there is no replacement. How could such a horrible thing happen? And now the Constellation will not replace it, in 7 years or ever (unless we change this). We need a vehicle to go to the International Space Station, and to return to the Moon. Then we will need another vehicle, preferably with a fusion powered engine, to take astronauts to Mars.
Why have we Americans become so small as a nation? What is wrong with us? Why didn't the magic "free enterprise machine" bail us out on this one? Pres. John F. Kennedy said that we planned to put a man on the moon (paraphrase) not because it is easy, but because it is hard.
Have we decided to let this nation collapse, this beacon of hope and temple of liberty, not because it is hard to collapse (although very unpleasant), but in fact because it is easy?
Links: More on the Space Shuttle
pix from: Aerospace Web (dot) org
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