Why is everyone suddenly so worried about NASA? What's so bad about privatized space travel?
Posted By admin on March 4, 2010
This has happened all through out history. There was a time where only the best of the best were allowed to be Sailors -- after a while that changed and now every big name executive owns a yacht. For a while only the elite were allowed to travel by airplane -- now even the poorest family flies to Fort Lauderdale to some family resort. NASA has been way to restrictive and high brow about who they sent into space and what experiments were performed.
It's time for that to change. God created the universe for all of us to see, not a few ultra elite air force pilots to drink tang and study microbes at 25,000 dollars per hour. What do we get out of it? A few images of the floating around and waving hello? Come on... This being 2010 I find that ridiculous.
I say let the private companies team up with universities and private research groups to send up teams of scientists, researchers and yes... tourists. This is one of the few things I agree with Obama on. People need to stop using this as a political weapon. NASA space flights are just high priced photo ops and as a huge Space enthusiast I think it needs to stop. NASA should be limited to a search agency. Let them keep their toys and let them keep doing lab experiments up in space. The people should be allowed to participate more in the world of space exploration.
Just this week, it was announced that all of NASA’s ambitious
long term projects were being canceled, including a return to the
moon and the manned Mars missions. Instead, the main focus of
NASA is to be as a monitoring agency for global warming. This
once great team of scientists, technicians,astronauts, and researchers, reduced
to just another bureaucratic arm of a government trying to further
its partisan agenda. It is sad, but not likely to change.
Now it’s time for the government to make all of its technical information available
to private industry, get out of the way and let the capitalists and dreamers have a shot
at space. If government had run air travel following the Wright brothers, there would never have been private airlines or the whole
air travel industry. Let’s see what they can do with space travel.
I’m betting that private citizens would be reaching the Moon in
less than 10 years, with no help from government dollars.