RE: We can dare to dream of the stars again, if only we can achieve this small thing.
May 16, 2012 at 1:31 pm
(May 15, 2012 at 8:23 pm)Chuck Wrote: NASA was conceived as an organizing agency to beat the soviets in the vital fields of high performance military aerospace technology and ballistic missile technology, and secondarily as vanity tool to try and trump the soviets bragging rights excessively emphasized in an more naively idealistic age. It probably was never a sustainably efficient organization for advancement of generally applied and basic science.Delicious irony that they prided themselves on getting to the moon and yet the Soviets still won the space race in the end after all.
They're still putting up rockets as we speak whereas the rest of us are filling in petitions.