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I don't this this is about government vs. private corporation. I just don't think anyone cares about space anymore. My sister goes to Purdue and when they ded
by physcab 16y ago
I don't this this is about government vs. private corporation. I just don't think anyone cares about space anymore.
My sister goes to Purdue and when they dedicated the Neil Armstrong building the school had just built, there were apparently 15 or 16 astronauts in attendance. You know how many students showed up to hear them talk? A few dozen. Purdue has like 30 or 40k students and they couldn't even fill a classroom.
- VladRussian 16y ago>I just don't think anyone cares about space anymore. because of the stagnation of the government space exploration programs there have been very little new achieved in space in decades - thus lack of general interest (with notable exceptions may be like Hubble&Chandra, Mars rovers, and GPS/mapping - each of which spurned a lot of interest, activity and development in their respective niches). Put the man on Mars - you'll have all the 40K trying to squeeze in to listen. Or even back on the Moon ... just for a week :)
- InclinedPlane 16y agoBeing a government astronaut doesn't have the same allure as it once did, largely because they tend to do the same sorts of things that astronauts already did 40 years ago. Or, indeed, less interesting things as humans haven't left low Earth orbit since the mid '70s.