Re: Is NASA a US "Defence Agency"?

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:19:29 -0500, "Jonathan" <write@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


.... It's becoming clearer every
day that the Vision was created to fill the needs of our
military in terms of the missile defense plans they have
for the future.


How so? Unless there's a later-day Skylab involved, the Orion/Ares 1
stack is useless. The military's use of the shuttle left such a bad
taste in their mouth they switched to ELVs in the late '80s and never
looked back.

Major civilian and military space programs are usually announced as
such. The Shuttle's predecssors -- Mercuy, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab
--- were all cicvilian programs with nomilitay purposes. It is true
both NASA and the DoD use the same contractos. But it is a very big
leap from there to say the VSE is really about missile defense. Evil
Keneval wouldn't make that leap.

Bare in mind that the "military industrial complex" does more than
military stuff. For instance, Boeing, a major defense contractor,
also makes the commercial jets that holiday travelers will be flying
on this week. But there's no way any rational person could take that
fact and argue that Thanksgiving is a military operation.



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