This week’s piece for the DC is now available. It’s about how Obama has chosen, to quote the Big Lebowski, to micturate all over the U.S. space program by eliminating NASA’s budget.
Wouldn’t want anyone thinking that American exceptionalism was still alive and kicking, would we?
Head on over, and read – read like the wind!
- Robert Laurie
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As a now unemployed aerospace engineer I can’t fully blame Obama for what has happened to our Space program. I can blame Al Gore since he was in charge of the Clinton X-33 program that effectively ended all advancement work on the Space shuttles and resulted in eight years of wasted time and money on a shuttle replacement that never had a chance of working. Then came the start of the commercial programs in Clinton’s last year in which more money was lost to companies that for the most part went belly up over the last ten years leaving us with only one SpaceX. Then came the new Constellation program which wasn’t a return to the moon but a program to place men on Mars with the return to the moon being just a starting action. The whole effort was poorly though out and even worse in execution. Delays began immediately and the goals only insured we don’t, right now, have an alternative manned low Earth orbit system to the Shuttle. So now everything is cancelled and all is riding on Elon Musk and his Falcon 9 vehicle. The first three Falcon Ones failed in launch. Will Falcon 9 be better; given the situation I can only hope that it does. But in the future get one fact straight. Ares/Constellation/Orion wasn’t a manned Earth orbit system or even a return to the moon. It was a hopeless attempt to put men on Mars using leftovers from the Shuttle program: the moon was only to be a side trip.
No one made the claim that the end-goal of Constellation was the moon…. I only said the program would have returned us to the moon in 2020.