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Many of you are too young to remember but the time between the final Apollo mission and the first flight of the Space Shuttle was unbearably long.
The fact that NASA is retiring the shuttles without a replacement in the air is troubling. It is depressing for me.
It's really depressing for us here in Florida. NASA and the Space Program probably brought more money into this state, than Mickey. Now we are slaves to the mouse...
What was Obama thinking? Guess he not much into science and technology (gets his free from his Chinese friends). There was never really any hope of bring much of anything of great value from space, it was the work need to get there and back safely. We got smaller, faster computers, communications, all kinds of safety devices, sensors, well huge list. Kids study hard, stat out of trouble, just so they could be part of the space program. A lot of industries across the country were getting a piece of the NASA budget, since most everything was contracted out. Sure, a lot of tax dollars are spent, but a lot of it goes back into the local economies. I don't think our President has any idea just how many jobs he killed. Maybe the Nasa geeks get to keep their jobs, but their will be thousands of others drawing those 2 years of Unemployment benefits. Last I heard, NASA's new project was to track <Banned Topic> for Al Gore. From science, to science fiction...
So, what's to become of the INS (space station, not immigration)? We just hand over the keys to Russia, and hope the don't reduce their stockpile of nukes, by moving them upstairs, where we'll never be able to find them.
Maybe we should just look at it, like a two year vacation, there has to be at least one better choice in 2012. Of course, there are a lot of supporters still, if he keeps them happy with more jobless freebies, gay rights, and amnesty for aliens, that's a huge segment of votes to beat.