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Originally Posted by Minte
Tomorrow when the space shuttle lands Mission Control in Houston will close. The generations of dedicated people who helped make America a great country will be laid off.
For the foreseeable future what will remain of our astronaut corp will be hitching a ride into space with the Russians.
Change isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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why tie manned spaceflight into the greatness of america. NASA continues to conduct extraordinary research without manned space flights. like shooting a vehicle into a comet. Mars rovers. Hubble telescope.
just imo but we dont need men in space to continue learning about the universe. Our absence is 99% symbolic. its way too expensive for Man to be in space, way too easy for them to die, & theres almost nothing to do up there that machines cant do just as well.
in closing. china will appear to be taking the space lead from us. But they cut corners in many facets in life & that philosophy is guaranteed to generate a space disaster. How will they look then?