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You paid billions in taxes to make this pipe dream go, so might as well be entertained! Personally I would shut the whole program down, since its unnecesary, and we cant afford it. It has nothing to do with protecting my life or freedoms. Leave Space to the free market and the Air Force.

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NASA’s Big Stakes With Orion Test Flight Include Mars Plans - ABC News

NASA Administrator and former astronaut Charlie Bolden says there’s a lot riding on tomorrow’s $370 million test flight of the new space capsule known as Orion.
If all goes according to plan, the unmanned Orion capsule will launch Thursday morning atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and make two loops around Earth over 4 ½ hours. The craft will test a variety of technologies for spaceflight beyond Earth orbit, including a heat shield that must protect future crews from a scorching re-entry at 20,000 mph.
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Soon as I posted this, they scrubbed it. So, theres a few million tax dollars down the drain.
 
jonny5 said:
You paid billions in taxes to make this pipe dream go, so might as well be entertained! Personally I would shut the whole program down, since its unnecesary, and we cant afford it. It has nothing to do with protecting my life or freedoms. Leave Space to the free market and the Air Force.

NASA Public, Ustream.TV: NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educational and public relations programming 24 hours a day on its var...
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Basic research of and in space might be okay for government too.
 
joG said:
Basic research of and in space might be okay for government too.
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Only if its related to existing powers. Otherwise, they need states permission to spend money on it. There is no general research power in the constitution. Only the promotion of science through awarding of patents.
 
Lockheed Martin is one of my Customers.

They have a nondescript warehouse just offsite ( Johnson's Space Center ) with no sign and or identifying features that would designate it as a Lockheed Martin facility.

Its an old Movie Studio and is called by me and a few who work with me " The Moon landing building "...

No, I believe we went to the Moon ofcourse but this Building which has been around since the early 60s is just too perfect a place to stage a moon landing.

It still has the old dressing rooms and make up rooms and a underground film vault for the old nitro-cellulous films ( very flamable ) that were used back in the day.

Well Lockheed uses it for storage and R and D and also got the Contract to build the Orion capsule.

They built a full scale mock-up of the capsule a few years ago out of plywood and kept it under a tarp in that building.

Well I had to go by there and meet a Facilities contact one day and noticed they had the Tarp off.

A few NASA engineers standing around so I decided to make a joke.

I said " That thing will never survive re-entry "....

Wow, you would think by their reaction I insulted all of their Mothers simultaneously.

Now I support funding for NASA and the Orion project.
 
Launch cancelled.
 
jonny5 said:
Soon as I posted this, they scrubbed it. So, theres a few million tax dollars down the drain.
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Do you consider the tax dollars which paid for the Apollo missions wasted?

They, amongst other things were largely responsible for the development of decent computers. And communication satellites. And lots of other stuff.

This new space ship will play a big part in the industrialization of space. This will be the greatest single leap in human wealth ever.

The cost is less than will be spent on the next Navy air craft carrier. Are you expecting to get lots back out of that one?
 
Tim the plumber said:
Do you consider the tax dollars which paid for the Apollo missions wasted?

They, amongst other things were largely responsible for the development of decent computers. And communication satellites. And lots of other stuff.

This new space ship will play a big part in the industrialization of space. This will be the greatest single leap in human wealth ever.

The cost is less than will be spent on the next Navy air craft carrier. Are you expecting to get lots back out of that one?
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Yes, those things would have been developed anyway. And probably faster and better and cheaper.
 
The whole program is too little too slow. It's tailored to the lack of cash, and stretched far beyond the possibility of keeping staff active and engaged, making each slow step more complicated, since the people involved in the last step will have moved on, retired or died.
 
Manc Skipper said:
The whole program is too little too slow. It's tailored to the lack of cash, and stretched far beyond the possibility of keeping staff active and engaged, making each slow step more complicated, since the people involved in the last step will have moved on, retired or died.
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And really, all they did was reinvent Apollo. Whats the point of going to Mars anyway? To say we did it? At the very least they should be wasting the money on a permanent habitat in orbit or on the moon before they even bother with anything else.
 
jonny5 said:
Yes, those things would have been developed anyway. And probably faster and better and cheaper.
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Don't tell anyone, but the space race was basically a cover for ICBM research.
 
Deuce said:
Don't tell anyone, but the space race was basically a cover for ICBM research.
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Be that as it may it was still a worthy endeavor.

I know more than a few of the Engineers in Houston and these guys are our best amd brightest.

Plus my Dad worked in the Appollo missions as a Engineer for NASA.

Lockheed and Boeing have been customers of mine for 15 years.

I don't mind Federal dollars being spent on Space exploration one bit.

Motivating a younger Generation to excell in Science, Mathematics is a worthy investment.
 
jonny5 said:
And really, all they did was reinvent Apollo. Whats the point of going to Mars anyway? To say we did it? At the very least they should be wasting the money on a permanent habitat in orbit or on the moon before they even bother with anything else.
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Let's get mining an asteroid. All the H3 and rare earth metals we could ever use.
 
Fenton said:
Be that as it may it was still a worthy endeavor.

I know more than a few of the Engineers in Houston and these guys are our best amd brightest.

Plus my Dad worked in the Appollo missions as a Engineer for NASA.

Lockheed and Boeing have been customers of mine for 15 years.

I don't mind Federal dollars being spent on Space exploration one bit.

Motivating a younger Generation to excell in Science, Mathematics is a worthy investment.
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Im sure you dont mind spending other peoples money. I DO.
 
jonny5 said:
Im sure you dont mind spending other peoples money. I DO.
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What other peoples money? Are you saying that Fenton doesnt pay taxes too? Since when do you get to dictate what people want to fund through their taxes?
 
jonny5 said:
Im sure you dont mind spending other peoples money. I DO.
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I don't buy into the BS Fiscal Stimulus Keynesian " solutions " that so many here continue to defend.

I don't support Government spending on Substandard Technologies that are being driven by ideology and the ridiculous false narrative of AGW.

And Government spending on things like a growing entitlement class is a TERRIBLE investment.

But I'm not opposed to all Government spending.

NASA has been around since the 60s and we've as a society benefited greatly from the technology that came out of US Space exploration.

The Moon missions were made possible with sure, allot of Government spending but it wasn't the Government that got Astronauts there and back 6 times safely

It was the private sector. It was Competition between Companies who were fighting for those contracts and it was the employees who were given the freedom to be truly innovative that pushed that technology to its limits.

Its why the Soviets stopped at low altitudes while we went onto the Moon. How innovative can you be when you have a gun to your head ?

It was one American Scientists that programmed the computer in the lunar lander. His innovations in writing code and building a operating system are still being used today.

He programmed in interupts and weighted processses and subroutines based on how critical they were to the operation of the lander and he did it in the 60s.

Windows uses interupts and weighs processes and subroutines in the same way

An alarm went off in the Lunar Lander as they were about to descend for the first time. They all looked at him in the Control room and he said don't worry about it.

The Computer is just kicking out non essential routines.

It was one American Scientists who came up with the concept of a lunar lander and made it a reality.

Werner Von Braun wanted to land the entire Appolo Rocket on the Moon.

Unfortunately NASA has been hit pretty hard by this President. Ive seen projects scrapped, and entire 5 story buildings layed off.

NASA inspired allot of American children to enter into Science and Engineering.

That's slowly disappearing because now we have a administration that would rather tell these kids that they're not nor their Country exceptional. That your'e limited by the inherant social and racial injustices you have no control over.

Thats BS.
 
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Successful launch !

Awesome. I literally got Goose Bumbs
 
Fenton said:
I don't buy into the BS Fiscal Stimulus Keynesian " solutions " that so many here continue to defend.

I don't support Government spending on Substandard Technologies that are being driven by ideology and the ridiculous false narrative of AGW.

And Government spending on things like a growing entitlement class is a TERRIBLE investment.

But I'm not opposed to all Government spending.

NASA has been around since the 60s and we've as a society benefited greatly from the technology that came out of US Space exploration.

The Moon missions were made possible with sure, allot of Government spending but it wasn't the Government that got Astronauts there and back 6 times safely

It was the private sector. It was Competition between Companies who were fighting for those contracts and it was the employees who were given the freedom to be truly innovative that pushed that technology to its limits.

Its why the Soviets stopped at low altitudes while we went onto the Moon. How innovative can you be when you have a gun to your head ?

It was one American Scientists that programmed the computer in the lunar lander. His innovations in writing code and building a operating system are still being used today.

He programmed in interupts and weighted processses and subroutines based on how critical they were to the operation of the lander and he did it in the 60s.

Windows uses interupts and weighs processes and subroutines in the same way

An alarm went off in the Lunar Lander as they were about to descend for the first time. They all looked at him in the Control room and he said don't worry about it.

The Computer is just kicking out non essential routines.

It was one American Scientists who came up with the concept of a lunar lander and made it a reality.

Werner Von Braun wanted to land the entire Appolo Rocket on the Moon.

Unfortunately NASA has been hit pretty hard by this President. Ive seen projects scrapped, and entire 5 story buildings layed off.

NASA inspired allot of American children to enter into Science and Engineering.

That's slowly disappearing because now we have a administration that would rather tell these kids that they're not nor their Country exceptional. That your'e limited by the inherant social and racial injustices you have no control over.

Thats BS.
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Star Trek inspired a lot of people to get into science and engineering too. ;)
 
Fenton said:
I don't buy into the BS Fiscal Stimulus Keynesian " solutions " that so many here continue to defend.

I don't support Government spending on Substandard Technologies that are being driven by ideology and the ridiculous false narrative of AGW.

And Government spending on things like a growing entitlement class is a TERRIBLE investment.

But I'm not opposed to all Government spending.

NASA has been around since the 60s and we've as a society benefited greatly from the technology that came out of US Space exploration.

The Moon missions were made possible with sure, allot of Government spending but it wasn't the Government that got Astronauts there and back 6 times safely

It was the private sector. It was Competition between Companies who were fighting for those contracts and it was the employees who were given the freedom to be truly innovative that pushed that technology to its limits.

Its why the Soviets stopped at low altitudes while we went onto the Moon. How innovative can you be when you have a gun to your head ?

It was one American Scientists that programmed the computer in the lunar lander. His innovations in writing code and building a operating system are still being used today.

He programmed in interupts and weighted processses and subroutines based on how critical they were to the operation of the lander and he did it in the 60s.

Windows uses interupts and weighs processes and subroutines in the same way

An alarm went off in the Lunar Lander as they were about to descend for the first time. They all looked at him in the Control room and he said don't worry about it.

The Computer is just kicking out non essential routines.

It was one American Scientists who came up with the concept of a lunar lander and made it a reality.

Werner Von Braun wanted to land the entire Appolo Rocket on the Moon.

Unfortunately NASA has been hit pretty hard by this President. Ive seen projects scrapped, and entire 5 story buildings layed off.

NASA inspired allot of American children to enter into Science and Engineering.

That's slowly disappearing because now we have a administration that would rather tell these kids that they're not nor their Country exceptional. That your'e limited by the inherant social and racial injustices you have no control over.

Thats BS.
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Are you ok or do you just have a strong aversion to paragraphs? It seems like neat stuff you have to say, but damn if you don't make it harder to read.
 
AliHajiSheik said:
Are you ok or do you just have a strong aversion to paragraphs? It seems like neat stuff you have to say, but damn if you don't make it harder to read.
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I blame it all on my Smart phone.

99 percent of the time I post from my android and half of that time I'm multi-tasking.

So I'm usually short on time and busy and I KNOW it looks like a mess, especially if your'e reading my post from a PC.
 
Fenton said:
I blame it all on my Smart phone.

99 percent of the time I post from my android and half of that time I'm multi-tasking.

So I'm usually short on time and busy and I KNOW it looks like a mess, especially if your'e reading my post from a PC.
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Thanks, was just wondering.
 
Galactic waste of money that America does not have.

We're it a purely, privately funded program, I would love it.

But as a publicly funded program, I hate it.
 
DA60 said:
Galactic waste of money that America does not have.

We're it a purely, privately funded program, I would love it.

But as a publicly funded program, I hate it.
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Stop using the internet then and highways.... and velcro items and many more items. They all came from or associated with the space program, a galactic waste of money... :)
 
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