Comments on: A World Without NASA

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:20:55 +0000

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2010-05-26-nasa-atlantis_N.htm

“She is so ready to get stacked and back out to the launchpad,” he said. “You can tell that’s where she wants to be.”

No. At $1.2 billion or more for ONE more lunch, all the space shuttles want to be in museums, where they belong. They are outdated (verging on antiquated), wasteful, and DANGEROUS ways of getting into low Earth orbit.

Time to turn space travel over to Richard Branson and private industry, who will be able to explore space for far less money AND a with better safety record.

By: Keith Stevens

Keith Stevens — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:53:03 +0000

To think that private industry is going to work for the public good is absurd. Unfortunetly, the government has been and must continue to be the major benefactor of acedemia. Believe it or not NASA is a part of acedemia. Three billion dollars are spent each day on the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. NASA operates on only twenty days worth of war funding each day. Where would you rather have your “stolen” dollars go?

By: mpolzkill

mpolzkill — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:34:17 +0000

“absurd”

Very amusing. No need to try any harder then Mr. Hanks here:

What necessity? The necessity to get a bigger budget next year? Hilarious. You have no way of knowing what would be created with the funds not stolen from taxpayers.

Do a Google search: “Jay Hanks” + “NASA”. A coincidence? Is this a crazed NASA groupie or the same electrical technician with wild hyperbole in the defense of his rice bowl?

By: Jay Hanks

Jay Hanks — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:53:57 +0000

Have any of you ever heard neccesity is the mother of invention? To think that the private sector would have come up with anything like, not cell phones, but the technnology in them, is absurd. Do a search for NASA Spinoffs and see just what NASA gets credit for. NASA is a research center for the public. Anything that is developed that is not classified is provided to the public at no charge. For every dollar of the 18.7 billion that goes into NASA 6 dollars worth of technology goes to the public. To call them a monopoly is simply stating opinion. They are, in fact, the best thing that has happened to this country since 1776.

By: MadCowDisease

MadCowDisease — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:09:05 +0000

Whenever I think of NASA, this image keeps coming to mind: sometime in the future, a NASA spacecraft is lumbering along on its long journey to Mars…

And it misses its target because bureacrats don’t know the difference between the imperial and the metric system of units.

By: Matthew Graybosch

Matthew Graybosch — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:10:42 +0000

Not only does NASA have no incentive to avoid blowing up its customers, but it cannot even be bothered to avoid blowing up its own employees, as evidenced by the Challenger and Columbia explosions. It's tempting to suggest that NASA stands for "Need Another Seven Astronauts".

By: jl

jl — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:22:11 +0000

Whenever I think of NASA, this image keeps coming to mind: sometime in the future, a NASA spacecraft is lumbering along on its long journey to Mars. It is about halfway there, with a few years to go to reach the planet. And then Burt Rutan goes whizzing by with a load of tourists, in something from the Jetsons…