rangerone314 wrote:Maybe after India depletes their groundwater they can all move to the moon.
The Obama administration is killing Constellation, NASA's ambitious back-to-the moon program. The decision represents a thunderous demolition of the Bush-era strategy at the space agency, which had already poured $9 billion into a new rocket, the Ares 1, and a new crew capsule, Orion.
"The president's proposed NASA budget begins the death march for the future of U.S. human spaceflight," Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) said Monday. "If this budget is enacted, NASA will no longer be an agency of innovation and hard science. It will be the agency of pipe dreams and fairy tales."
Rep. Pete Olson (R-Tex.) said, "This is a crippling blow to America's human spaceflight program."
Ainan wrote:...
FYI: Obama appointed a fellow black man to head NASA, Charles Bolden.
dinopello wrote:Obama's budget is proposing to kill Bush's "Return to the Moon" program.
No Moon for YOU!The Obama administration is killing Constellation, NASA's ambitious back-to-the moon program. The decision represents a thunderous demolition of the Bush-era strategy at the space agency, which had already poured $9 billion into a new rocket, the Ares 1, and a new crew capsule, Orion.
There are a few in congress who are extremely PO'd !"The president's proposed NASA budget begins the death march for the future of U.S. human spaceflight," Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) said Monday. "If this budget is enacted, NASA will no longer be an agency of innovation and hard science. It will be the agency of pipe dreams and fairy tales."
Rep. Pete Olson (R-Tex.) said, "This is a crippling blow to America's human spaceflight program."
SFDukie wrote:Ainan wrote:...
FYI: Obama appointed a fellow black man to head NASA, Charles Bolden.
How is Bolden's race relevant to this discussion?
They are basicaly up to a Soyez level technology knocked off form the Russians.Ainan wrote:The Chinese on the other hand are going ahead with their space program full throttle.
Novus wrote:The difference between China's leaders and America's leaders is that Chinese leadership is full of engineers while American leaders are mostly lawyers. Those in control of China understand the importance of technology. Americans almost live in a cargo cult by comparison where few realize the importance that technology plays in making their lives possible. Cutting Nasa will go down as another huge blunder in the unwinding of the American empire.
Odd the last technocrat in charge of the US was the oil businessman and trained professional manager GW Bush. The last energy engineer in charge of the US was trained nuclear engineer JE Carter. Neither of whom strike me as being particularly successful although both could be argued as having been disasters due to there fear of a coming energy crisis.Novus wrote:The difference between China's leaders and America's leaders is that Chinese leadership is full of engineers while American leaders are mostly lawyers. Those in control of China understand the importance of technology. Americans almost live in a cargo cult by comparison where few realize the importance that technology plays in making their lives possible. Cutting Nasa will go down as another huge blunder in the unwinding of the American empire.
Three Chinese astronauts, led by a veteran of a previous space mission, soared into orbit Tuesday to begin a 15-day voyage to China's Tiangong 1 space lab, a flight officials say will further prove the capabilities of the country's manned space program.
Chinese President Xi Jingping witnessed the launch at Jiuquan and addressed the astronauts before they boarded the spacecraft.
"You will be embarking on the fifth manned space mission of China," Xi told the crew. "This carries the space dream of the Chinese nation. It will also show the Chinese passion to reach for the stars and reach into space."
Shenzhou 10 is scheduled to reach the Tiangong 1 module Thursday. The two vehicles will form a complex more than 60 feet long after the link-up in space.
The astronauts, commanded by Nie Haisheng, a 48-year-old general in the People's Liberation Army, will duplicate docking feats accomplished by last year's Shenzhou 9 mission. But Shenzhou 10 will pave new ground in experimentation and pioneer another type of rendezvous with Tiangong 1.
China's manned space program, which has proceeded at a deliberate pace since the first astronaut flight in 2003, is preparing for the construction of a 200-ton Mir-class space station in Earth orbit by 2020.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
After the year 2020, China's future space station will probably be the only one of any kind in service considering the ISS's retirement plan. By then, China's space dream will not only serve its own people but also contribute to space exploration for the human race.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
0153 GMT (9:53 p.m. EDT on Tues.)
Chinese military officials have declared the Shenzhou 10 mission a success.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
0150 GMT (9:50 p.m. EDT on Tues.)
The Shenzhou 10 crew appears healthy and happy, smiling in chairs as they receive flowers and congratulatory gifts.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
0142 GMT (9:42 p.m. EDT on Tues.)
Zhang Xiaoguang, a 47-year-old colonel in the People's Liberation Army, is the last crew member to leave the Shenzhou 10 re-entry capsule.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
0137 GMT (9:37 p.m. EDT on Tues.)
Wang Yaping, a 33-year-old transport pilot in the People's Liberation Army, has exited the Shenzhou 10 spacecraft. Wang is China's second female astronaut.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
0132 GMT (9:32 p.m. EDT on Tues.)
Shenzhou 10 commander Nie Haisheng, a 48-year-old veteran of two spaceflights, has crawled out of the capsule. He is smiling and waving to the recovery team welcoming the crew home.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2013
0050 GMT (8:50 p.m. EDT on Tues.)
Chinese state television ended live coverage of the Shenzhou 10 landing before the three astronauts left the vehicle.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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