Its a truly sad day for America. Thanks to Obama, we are now going backwards in the field of manned space exploration. Change we can believe in!

Will miss the blastoffs and landings.. NASA was something for it’s day. something tells me there is another more advanced program going on that will come to light..umm..someday…Possibly USA backed in another country, we do everything else from foreign soil these days.

Will miss the blastoffs and landings.. NASA was something for it’s day. something tells me there is another more advanced program going on that will come to light..umm..someday…Possibly USA backed in another country, we do everything else from foreign soil these days.

Obama has spent OUR money like a drunken sailor on unworkable programs and payoffs for his base, yet he gets rid of the shuttle program and has no plan for NASA other than tasking it with “Muslim outreach.” Whether by design or stupidity, Obama has done everything he can to turn the nation into a third world country.

It IS a sad day for America.

Very sad also to hear of the thousands losing their jobs because Obama decided prior to taking office to abolish the US space program.  If you recall, he’d had a panel that met with NASA and their bias and intent was so extreme, and so nothwithstanding whatever NASA showed or told them, that NASA employees went public.  Months go by and guess what, Obama’s preconceived plan became policy and the US space program decimated as a result.  Very, very sad day for America.   Even with budget cuts I wish they could have continued with the new vehicle development that Bush started and kept the employees, many who’d spent their entire adult lives in the space program, been kept on or loaned out to the private contractors.  Sending them out on their ear like Russian nuclear weapons scientests after the cold war is the dumbest thing I could imagine, yet that is official policy now…

While I am in favor of space exploration, the shuttle program was the consummate fiasco from the beginning with its built-in design flaws which cost numerous lives to the fact that they accomplished little that could not have been done with unmanned rockets ( launching satellites, etc) or through the use of the  space-lab .

The program did not explore space but rather inhabited space.

Bush ended the program.  Obama just followed his lead. 

LOL

Barry can’t do anything on his own can he- he isn’t responsible for one thing, is he?

You just made a great argument as to why a president is no longer
necessary- 2.5 years and Barry is not responsible for one thing!

MG- who would have thought the GB could actually serve 3 terms and abrogate the 22nd amendment.

Clearly Obama is responsible whether or not he is completely responsible.  Or not. 

Shuttle Atlantis Actually heading to Mars!
Atlantis, didn’t actually land at Kennedy Space Center. (It was faked with modern digital techniques.) The craft is apparently on a new trajectory–to Mars. In a series of unexpected communications to Mission Control, Commander Chris Ferguson informed NASA that he and his crew were extending this last shuttle mission “for the good of the country, our posterity, and the book rights.”
More details at the whimsical Thinking Out Loud, http://marperl.blogspot.com/2011/07/shuttle-atlantis-changes-trajectory-to.html

Will we still be going to Mars? Should I call Sheila Jackson Lee and ask her?

Bush ended the program, BUT REPLACED IT WITH ANOTHER. Obama canceled the replacement. Get it moron? 

Short on fact and long on assumption are we?

Actually, I don’t believe that the ISS would have been possible without humans in space to assemble it and inhabit it, so you are not correct. Any time man spends in space is an exploration of space and its effects on humans. There were literally thousands of experiments carried out on the shuttle that could not have been performed if not for human beings actually performing them. There were a large number of human physiological studies done on the shuttle but you say this is not exploration. Your definition of space exploration is very limited if you do not include the multitude of scientific experiments that could not have been done robotically.

The astronauts and support staff of NASA would differ substantially with your opinion. The Hubble Space Telescope would also not have been possible to launch and maintain without human hands in space, and I think it has done a superb job of man’s quest to explore space even beyond where humans will ever go.

Enough slready!! Until something other than liquid fuel is used for propulsion, space exploration is a non-issue. It just doesn’t create the speed needed for space exploration that has some true meaning. It’s nice to see pictures of distatnt galaxies but the pictures we’re receiving are sent from space craft launched years ago. The Space Shuttle Program employed people and gave Americans something to cheer about. The ROI just isn’t there.

Actually, I don’t believe that the ISS would have been possible without
humans in space to assemble it and inhabit it, so you are not correct.”

Wrong- they could have gone up on Russian rockets ( they are doing that now) and there where no experiments done on the shuttle that couldn’t have been done on the ISS.

It’s sad that you didn’t know it was Bush that ended the program. Your hatred for Obama has corrupted your mind.  

You did not state that in your original post, but what you did say leads one to believe that. Shall I repost it for you?

You are wrong because there were manned in flight experiments dating back to the Gemini program, Skylab, and the Apollo program as well as the shuttle program before the ISS was built and operational, therefore the ISS portion of space explorations by mankind is fairly late in terms of timeline. Even the Russian MIR station was before the shuttle. We do not know much of their research in space but even they placed a high value on humans performing scientific research in space.

Thank the creators that be that this money pit hobby is over!! We have enuf problems in th US to spend a gazzilion dollars. what tangible benefits has this produced for the average american?? A big zero, how bout some better healthcare, charter schools that benefit the many not the few

U talk a lot of crap bagger , so other than ur hate for a black man in the white house how do we benefit as a society having this program exist? U dont have an argument. The bible teaches u to take care of ur house first…… U do know that i assume u r a jesus freak like all of crazy GOP zombies,,

Obama is to the rebuilding of America as World War II was to the rebuilding of Europe.

Obama has been nothing but a series of “Perfect Storms.”

I don’t think the youth of America would be all that inspired by sending robots off into space.

The people that designed those robots grew up during the greatest period of American history. I was fortunate to have been part of the space program and have been able to carry the many things I learned to commercial R&D for aviation (Next Generation aircraft).

The issue isn’t that (P)resident Obama killed the shuttle program. President Bush ended the shuttle program before he left office to fund more lunar exploration. What (P)resident Obama did do was defund the lunar exploration.
More important to me, why didn’t the leader of NASA, Vice (P)resident Biden attend the LAST landing of a Space Shuttle (EVER!) and properly pay homage to a program that lasted 30 years? What message does this send to the country? The USA is no longer interested in leading the world in space exploration? To me, it is just one more in a long line of faux pas that this Administration committed in it’s short tenure in office. After all, wasn’t NASA the outgrowth of the NACA, signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson? Wasn’t NASA one of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s hopes for the future? It seems that if this Administration can’t say “I” about something, they won’t speak at all.
Or maybe they couldn’t get a Tele-Prompter in place fast enough………..

Therichhavescrewedamerica sez……..
Thank the creators that be that this money pit hobby is over!! We have
enuf problems in th US to spend a gazzilion dollars. what tangible
benefits has this produced for the average american?? A big zero, how
bout some better healthcare, charter schools that benefit the many not
the few……………….

……..Scratch Resistant Lenses, Grooved Runways, Water Filters, Cordless Power Tools, The Pressurized Pen (love the story behind this one), Velcro (wasn’t invented by NASA, but may not be here without it’s notoriety from NASA) Solar Cells and Fuel Cells (same reason as Velcro). Look at the end of runways at Teterboro NJ, Reading PA, Charleston WV to name a few.  You will find a crushable material designed to keep aircraft from running off the end of the runway, invented through research from NASA.
These are a few, do some of your own research.

To my estimate, the attitude in your post is the problem. Fewer and fewer people take responsibility for themselves. What good are “charter schools that benefit the many not the few” if there is nowhere to use the education and it doesn’t propel our species forward? For that matter, what good is a school system that doesn’t exceed to the brightest and require the less gifted to push themselves to excel? Challenge is what makes life worth living.

I would argue that Thepoorhavescrewedamerica just as much, and the working middle class foots the bill.