July 20th was the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Fortunately some of the elderly men who walked on the moon in 1969 and the early ’70s, expressed their opinion of the current state of NASA and America’s space program.
According to an article from Reuters “The U.S. investment in the Apollo space program, which landed men on the moon, paid off handsomely, unlike the $100 billion plowed into the International Space Station, Apollo’s pioneering astronauts said on Monday. ‘We opened the door to (the) future of exploration by touching down on another body,’ Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, said at a press conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. The United States staged six successful missions to the moon between 1969 and 1972, then developed the space shuttles and later, the space station. NASA is finishing construction of the station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations, and plans to retire the shuttle fleet next year. After that, the United States plans to pay Russia to ferry crews to the outpost, which orbits 225 miles above Earth.”
This could be considered the ultimate in outsourcing. Suppose the Russian space program collapses or the Russians become our official enemies again. What happens then? The trip to the moon forced the US to invent a wide variety of new technology. Unfortunately our politicians just don’t understand that inventions (by brilliant White engineers and scientists) equal prosperity while a massive invasion by needy Third World people equals economic ruin (just ask California).
The Reuters article notes “‘We’ve spent a lot of money up there (on the space station) for almost nothing. It’s almost a white elephant,’ Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell said. ‘Until we can really get a return on our investment on that particular project, then it was money wasted.’ The United States spent about $25 billion, in 1969 dollars, on the Apollo project. The investment, which consumed about 4 percent of the federal budget, was returned many times over, the astronauts said. ‘We now seem to think it’s too much to put 0.6 percent into the NASA budget,’ said Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham. ‘That is idiotic in my opinion.’ ”
The space station and the shuttle fleet did not involve the kind of massive new innovation that would be required to fly astronauts to Mars and back. The space shuttle was a bad design that was more dangerous to fly than the Apollo rockets. Besides, why did NASA re-do something that already worked?
It’s hard to come up with money for NASA with Obama giving away the store in trillion-dollar increments for useless bail outs and pouring what’s left of the whole gross national product into socialized medicine and nationalizing major manufacturing industries. Obama is at heart a crooked Chicago politician first (and a Marxist second). Everything comes down to patronage, and he will not pour money into a high-tech program that creates jobs mainly for White male scientists and engineers –even if it would lead to long-term prosperity for the US.
The Reuters article continues “What’s lacking, the astronauts say, is an inspiring goal, a motivating force, such as what the objective of landing on the moon did for the Apollo initiative. ‘To me, exploration is going someplace that you haven’t been before,’ said Aldrin, who would like to see NASA move on to Mars, rather than leading a return to the moon.”
A trip to Mars might use a compact fusion reactor and a variety of inventions that could have a dramatic effect on our lives –just as the trip to the moon introduced the PC years earlier than it otherwise would have been invented.
Precisely what “economic, environmental, and strategic goals” of Obama might be served by a space program? Siphoning all the money for the space program to ACORN? Blacks aren’t interested in space at all. It’s a White thing. What do you want to bet that Obama finds some excuse to simply shut the whole thing down?
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Its time a WHITE MAN set foot on Mars.
But, they dont want whites exploring the universe. They want us dead or worse enslaved to their morbid will. To busy cleaning up their messes to dream of the stars & what might be.
We will go there & back again . We will build cities on Mars. We will live there. We will turn it into a green & blue paradise.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNg_UJIwU2U&feature=related