bbjohn wrote:kham wrote:NASA is dead meat. And should be defunded. Their last policy statement alone was enough to get them all terminated in non -bizzaro world.
The only leaps forward in space technology in the next quarter century will be coming from the private sector. And they likely will be pretty startling , a lot like they were back when there actually was a space agency with a mission.
Amen, Kham. NASA has gone from being an organization with a mission to being just another government bureaucracy. The trouble is they no longer have a goal. They got to the moon, and they lost direction.
Now that the technology has become cheaper and more widely available, let's see what the private sector can do. I'll bet the results will be awesome, and as exciting as anything NASA did in its glory years.
Big Bad John
The private sector... i.e. reality show. This could actually work. (and everyone would watch.)
http://mashable.com/2013/04/22/mars-one ... y-tv-show/
http://gizmodo.com/5974437/mars-colonis ... apply-here
https://apply.mars-one.com/