Re: All the American's here?

Ed Kyle (edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: Christopher wrote:
: > Over the months of lurking I have noticed a lot of flack aimed at NASA
: > coming from Americans here, and comments from them to the effect that
: > IMO NASA should have done this that and the other. So I can't help
: > wondering if any of you lot have ever actually *worked* for NASA, and
: > had hands on experience of operations. i.e. have any of you's ever
: > actually worked in the mission control room OR actually worked at NASA
: > on the spacecraft or rockets over the past 30 years or so since
: > project Mercury?
: >
: > If the answer is no, then critical comments here at what NASA should
: > do, or criticism as to what NASA is planning to do are are somewhat
: > moot, and NASA will do what it's controlling administrators and their
: > political masters want it to do irrespective as to what is posted
: > here.

: U.S. citizens, who are free to express themselves
: here or anywhere else about this or any other topic,
: do have the final say, through their Congressional
: representatives, about NASA. It was lack of public
: support that nearly shut the agency down in the
: waning days of the Apollo program.

: The truth is that many Americans wouldn't mind in the
: least if the Agency were shut down entirely. Our
: fellow citizens who were recently stuck in New Orleans,
: for example, would much rather see government resources
: allocated to flood control than space exploration.
: Those who are constantly stuck in traffic would rather
: see new highways than new spaceships, etc.. (Never mind

New highways?!? Why not something better than a Second World public
transportation system?!

: that NASA's budget wouldn't go very far in addressing
: such big concerns.) That this lack of support is
: reflected in posts to this group should be no surprise.

: I myself, being a former NASA contractor employee, am
: inclined to support most space efforts, both public
: and private, but I don't agree with your assertion
: that one must have worked for the space program to
: have earned a right to express an opinion about it
: here. Like it or not, this is a free expression
: zone for everyone from rocket scientists to homeless
: crackpot philosophers.

Agreed, but his point is more of, "don't criticize a man, unless you have
walked a mile in his shoes". Which I agree with. I'd rather hear your
opinion that Paul Dietz's as an example, though Paul has as much right
despite how wrong. :)

Eric


: - Ed Kyle

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