en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/973284 Comments by Pauldale http://nouvelles.cytalk.com/2010/04/obama-lays-out-bold-revised-space-policy/#IDComment69842218 I have followed the commercial space industry for 24 years and I have seen so many companies tell me (in person) that we can do the job of NASA better and cheaper. It is all BRAVADO! Most if not all went out of business. Its American Car-Sales-men-ship ship in all respects. The Obama Space policy is to derail the American dream of routine access to Space by ending the NASA made space craft. Private companies are not equipt to do the testing of a man-rated space craft like NASA and make a profit. This fairy tail of private Space Cowboys is a Hollywood dream and does not reflect the reality of space science. The SMALL advance of 6 Billion dollars over 5 years is CHUMP CHANGE and Congress knows it. To push any real scientific return for a NASA manned space flight into the future (2 decades)is a plan to make sure it is NEVER achieved. Far too many budget and bureaucratic conditions will change for a VAGUE idea of Men in orbit around another planet with no real goal to do more than Robots can do now. Our President is not interested in CHANGE, he is interested in the status quo. The real goal of NASA is not to always invent new stuff, but to reach far off destinations and do science once there. This silly idea that private Space Billionaires are going to open up the space frontier is pure FOLLY. Look around people...IT IS OPENED UP! IT is here now. All we need is the funding and we could go to MARS in 10 years. Settle the Moon, bring samples back from the Moons of Jupiter. You think some rich playboy is interested in science? I know President Obama is not. NASA will not be doing any thing glorious while he is in office. Look at Russia for the last 40 years, They are using 1960 technology and yet we have to pay to ride their space craft for some time before a Space taxi is invented with a motive only directed to Profit. Did anyone ever think that Russia could do that now in a free market economy sooner than our space industries? Sure! They have a mandate from NASA and are charging more per seat. If our American Cowboy space companies drop the ball, Russia could be the Space Taxi for the world. It seems that the love Cult of Obama and his plans for America are always seen in the best light, but as my experience in Aerospace has shown me, NOTHING goes according to plan. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:07:52 +0000 http://nouvelles.cytalk.com/2010/04/obama-lays-out-bold-revised-space-policy/#IDComment69842218 http://nouvelles.cytalk.com/2010/04/obama-lays-out-bold-revised-space-policy/#IDComment69841898 There is NO market for private space taxis. The idea of Commercial Space Taxis is a FANTASY and our President knows that. This hope to use SPACE TAXIS is just smoke and mirrors to the American public that believe Captain Kirk is waiting in a garage with a FLYING SPACE CAR. If any private company had 5 Billion dollars they probably would be able to get a manned space ship into orbit in 6 years. But not at the budgets they are using now. They also hope to make a profit on each launch. Our President in the U.S. is not the least bit concerned on the success or failure of these start ups in the near future. President Obama knows he will be out of office long after it is realized that his policy is a complete hoax. For his term (or terms) in office will no longer be burdened by an expensive government Rocket program and with no launch disasters during his time as president. His BIG ROCKET to the Asteroids and Mars will either become a reality long after he leaves office or be swept away by other Presidents with other agendas. It saddens me that he does not have the courage to just admit that he finds NASA and Human space flight a luxury and be done with it. But he knows that will cost him VOTES in the most contested state in the Union. FLORIDA! Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:05:03 +0000 http://nouvelles.cytalk.com/2010/04/obama-lays-out-bold-revised-space-policy/#IDComment69841898