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Will NASA retreat from human space exploration?
- jacquesm 17y agoThe retreat was started decades ago. It is coming to a close. The US simply can't afford a 'war on terrorism', a 'war on drugs' and a space program at the same time. Cool if you downmod because you disagree, but please enlighten me as to why you disagree. The height of the space program was the commencement of the shuttle programme and the assembly of the space station (arguably an international more than a US endeavour, but without US participation it would never have happened). But the shuttles are at their end-of-life and it remains to be seen if there ever will be successor. They always were near-earth devices, some people would argue that the US space program ended with the last manned moonshot. A significant reason for this is that the US has spent large sums of money keeping a vast number of people locked up in jail for minor infractions, spent countless billions abroad to try to influence events in Latin America and the middle east. Not to mention two wars that might have been avoided by not empowering people that turned really bad (tm) when they slipped their leash.
- coderdude 17y agoI upmodded you because no one is countering your argument, and I don't think you're entirely misguided. The US has stagnated like crazy when it comes to space. I don't know if it's necessarily our fake wars going on. I think it's because people (the general populous) does not care. If they cared I'm sure we could just print even more bogus cash and pay for it.