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So, america... Ready to do anything yet?
Here's the thing... if America really cared about NASA... I mean REALLY CARED... we would have been up in arms when they abdicated the shuttle program 14 years ago. That was, what, under Obama's first term? 2011.
I was super interested in the shuttle stuff when I was a kid, from Enterprise forward, and was pretty disappointed with what they were doing with it.
"Oh, look, they're sending up mice again... shouldn't we be PAST that by now? We landed on the fricking MOON already, why are we sending up mice... AGAIN?"
Dude. The Space Shuttle program was initially meant to run for 10 years and 100 missions. It ultimately ran for 30 years and 135 missions,far surpassing every design goal. The tragedy is not that it was shut down, but that there was nothing to replace it when we did.
We literally successfully completed the first flight test for Ares I. We absolutely had a replacement. They canceled it as soon as we built it and started the SLS program. We successfully launched SLS with an almost perfect mission around the moon. Now, just guess what the gov is doing. ...cancelling SLS. It might go a few more flights, but Trump canceled the program already. It's not that we don't build and successfully fly. It's that they pull the rug out from under our feet as soon as we're successful.
Yup. It just felt like we peaked with the Moon missions and have been steadily moving backwards ever since.
Same. I'm not even American and I was inspired by the goings on over the pond. Now, not so much.
Best I can do is a dictatorship.