It's a matter of values or what one values, what is important. I am real good with robotic exploration of the solar system and super telescopes for exo-planets, but I am including the actual history of what really happened, from senators, Mondale, Proxmire, and Kennedy. It cost life with the reduction of funding the shuttle program. The senators involved didn't know this and left it to the engineers to work around the cutbacks. The cutback version of the shuttle did cost people their lives. The same mind set exists today in the democratic party (US not New Zealand) and it's a careless, unjustifiable over confidence. Yes, the moon program was a publicity stunt. But it was funded to succeed, and that's the difference.
Well it was never supposed to be a proper space programme, was it? Sending robots to explore other planets is serious space exploration. Landing a man on the Moon so you can crow about how you've "won the space race" was just a big publicity stunt. -----Original Message----- From: LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 10, 2014 8:24 pm Subject: Re: Climate models On 11 April 2014 06:45, <spudboy...@aol.com> wrote: The Russians have continued space travel and so have the Chinese. The Progressive BHO administration is disinterested, by in large, with space stuff. This was way true when senators Proxmire, Mondale, and Ed Kennedy,voted to cut the old space shuttle funding in half, so we got what we got and it exploded twice. Nothing changes, it's always the grand over- confidence that is their earmark, of the progressives. Well it was never supposed to be a proper space programme, was it? Sending robots to explore other planets is serious space exploration. Landing a man on the Moon so you can crow about how you've "won the space race" was just a big publicity stunt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
