Re: Barack Obama Publishes His Space Policy

On Jan 14, 2:28 am, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"D. Orbitt" <msu1049...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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:  My feeling is that if NASA had been left alone from the beginning,
:with any schedule and direction they chose to use and a modest but
:constant, uninterrupted flow of money, we'd have cities on the moon
:and in orbit by now, and Manned Mars missions in serious preparation.
:What has messed things up since the sixties is the continuous tearing
:up and re-making of plans every time some devil Congressman or
:Presidon't wants to make a political point. Like a ship that could
:sail a thousand miles if it hadn't spent the time running in circles
:and zig-zags. Benign neglect, a steady, uninterrupted trickle, would
:have given Grand Canyon-like results by now, instead of a lot of
:viewgraphs and powerpoint slides that, without steady funding, fly to
:nowhere.
:
:There, I've said it. Agree or not?
:

Congress doesn't budget billions of dollars to "go do whatever you
want" organizations.

CIA and much of the military...


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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
 man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
 all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
                                      --George Bernard Shaw

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