All photos via Space.com.
Space X's first mission was a total success. The USAF has the X-37 program running full speed ahead with nary a hick up. NASA appears like an old, impotent, tired organization that needs to be put out to pasture.
But on second thought...who needs NASA? The USAF will be revitalized by taking care of the nations military affairs in space...Big Business will get the job done in low earth orbit and even in deep space if a profit can be made... yeah. Its time to take NASA down to the river, hold its head under water till it stops kicking and then let them feed the catfish.
But on second thought...who needs NASA? The USAF will be revitalized by taking care of the nations military affairs in space...Big Business will get the job done in low earth orbit and even in deep space if a profit can be made... yeah. Its time to take NASA down to the river, hold its head under water till it stops kicking and then let them feed the catfish.
I do agree its time for NASA to get out of the human spaceflight business, or at least operating its own hardware. But I think NASA does do good work on the purely exploration and science side of things. Space telescopes. Rovers on Mars. Probes in deep space. To stay relevant, NASA needs to evolve and focus exclusively on those kinds of unprofitable science missions,
ReplyDeleteWithout NASA there would have been no Hubble, Apollo, Voyager, Cassini, Viking, Shuttle, etc., not mention the many, MANY contributions to aeronautics. The F-15 wouldn't be the fighter it became without direct input from NASA for example.
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