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Boeing to build commercial spacecraft at shuttle hangar
Boeing will announce an agreement with Space Florida on Monday to lease the hangar that housed the space shuttles to build similar craft that will bring people and cargo to space. "Florida has five decades of leadership in the space industry, which makes our state the logical place for the next phase of space travel and exploration," Scott said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. "Boeing's choice of Florida for its Commercial Crew program headquarters is… (www.palmbeachpost.com) और अधिक...
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I guess it would put more people out of work, but why in the sam hill are we worrying about going to an asteroid or MARS when we can't even feed and take care of people we have down here, besides the fact that we have a space station up there now with people on board and have to rely on a foreign country to get our people up there. Seems to me there is something wrongheaded in this whole picture. Just Sayin'
Wayne 300% behind you. It is the damn defense contractors who have been skinning our Treasury blind for decades who are also the culprits for such gargantuan outlays for projects that do not meet deadlines or budgets. Just let us remember what President (and Ret. Army General) Eisenhower said when he was concluding his presidency: beware of the defense industry/military axis.
Wayne its not the governments responsibility to feed people it's the people responsibility to feed themselves. Good for boeing with moving forward with the technology.
I'm not downing Boeing. I'm like you as far as private enterprise and putting people to work and all they are doing. What pisses me off is reading the rest of the article and all the crap that NASA is into, spending money like the teat won't never run dry, thinking they are doing something important. Maybe somebody else cares about going to Mars but I sure as heck don't. MHO
And just a little additional, I just used the people as an example. Point is, we have so much that is needed right here that could be of benefit to a lot of people rather guickly and we squander money like there is no tomorrow for projects that won't make a damn to the general public.Again, IMHO
Ever since the 60's, we've heard this constant fiction that the money "wasted" on space exploration could easily feed/educate/clothe/house people in the US. It was the reason given for the early cancellation of Apollo program, it was the reason the original US space station was cancelled (which left the Shuttle with nowhere to go but Low Earth Orbit), and then it was the reason the Space Shuttle program was chronically underfunded. With so many cancelled NASA programs, what happened to all that money that was supposedly going to be saved?
The fact is that civilian space exploration -- it was Eisenhower who made NASA a civilian organization -- pays for itself many times over with technological advances, better weather forecasting and understanding of long-term climatology, huge advances in detecting resources and managing them, identifying the spread of crop diseases, and on and on. And it has been a sources of employment and inspiration for many thousands of our smartest people. And the fact is that we should be leading the world into space, not paying for rides on old Soviet spacecraft or watching the Chinese and Indian space programs quickly overtake us. We really are becoming a second class country in so many ways.
The fact is that civilian space exploration -- it was Eisenhower who made NASA a civilian organization -- pays for itself many times over with technological advances, better weather forecasting and understanding of long-term climatology, huge advances in detecting resources and managing them, identifying the spread of crop diseases, and on and on. And it has been a sources of employment and inspiration for many thousands of our smartest people. And the fact is that we should be leading the world into space, not paying for rides on old Soviet spacecraft or watching the Chinese and Indian space programs quickly overtake us. We really are becoming a second class country in so many ways.
