Posted
1/27/2009 05:45:00 PM
by Douglas
This is what some people think about the manned
spaceflight program. Stupid people:
Which, of course, we do. The shuttle’s last flight is scheduled for 2010. (This flight could be the last night launch in the program’s history.) Two new rockets, the Ares I and the Ares V, are in development, set to fly to the station in 2015, and later to the moon, and finally to Mars. But those plans were made by a different administration in a different time. Now the scope and scale of life felt more limited. Back on the bus, there were fears expressed that Americans risked becoming strangers to weightlessness — that for the first time in our nation’s history, we might be so overwhelmed by our earthbound concerns that we’d forget to fight gravity. Space demands sack. In a country that couldn’t figure out how to mortgage a suburban family home, Mars suddenly seemed a long way off.
I'm glad the manned spaceflight program is getting good press, no matter where it comes from, but these guys need to stick to taking pictures of boobs and writing stories about cigars.