Typical obama unite the world one big happy new world order...he don't care for the space program no president since Kennedy gave a crap about manned space flights,all he talked about was unmanned projects.
Kennedy also didn't care for manned space flight. Without the Russian "threat", NASA wouldn't have get only one cent from Kennedy
Kennedy was what Obama is as well: a great rhetorician and last but not least just a politician.
Obama today did talk about both, unmanned and manned proposals. But people really have to understand that the main task and work of NASA and its scientific research is not manned space flight. There is always that mistake. Manned space flight just gets the most attention and excitement within the public eye. The science NASA does on Earth and in space unmanned is much more than the Shuttle and ISS program does and did. Not to talk about Apollo and the pre-programs. Science in space was minor those days.
i hope Russia does do something s****d race the price try to hijack the station just so we can say told you so.I am sorry I just don't trust anyone to get our men and women up and back from space but Americans.
So you might see what I mean from page one: Not invented here syndrom. It's still there, on many people, and also on you obviously
Times and political situaions have changed. There is no Russian threat, nor is or will Russia become "evil" to its space partners.
we had the Saturn Vs and we have everything we need to build rockets (tanks SRBS)why does it take so long and so much more money?compared to the shuttle were the Saturn Vs cheaper?
The Apollo Program costs was, in today dollars, more than the entire US contribution to the ISS for now, just to send 3 men to the Moon 9 times (6 landings).
NASA is simply too costly/inefficiently. Norman Augustine was just talking about that on NASA TV by the way. He, just like Obama and any other smart person, is aware of the fact that sustainable programs are only possible for NASA by increasing commercialization and change the way of distributing money.
if so dig out the blue prints and use them, or modify them
Too expensive. What is needed is innovation. New stuff and a restructured NASA. Old technology and structures won't go anywhere.