The guy who talked Congress into defunding Apollo still singing the same song, still lives with Mom.The News-Leader, Springfield, MO
Whine of the Day
David Shipp
The United States explored the moon on several manned missions between 1969 and 1972. There is no need to go back. I seriously doubt that the moon has changed too much in 35 years. Those manned spaceflights were fine, but the era of lunar exploration is over and should not be brought back to life.
Our government never seems content with focusing on problems and issues here at home. If we are not sending someone abroad to shoot other humans, we are shooting humans into space to send back information that we either already have or have no use for. A lot of time and money is being wasted on exploring the solar system. For hundreds of years, man was content with looking at space with a telescope. Now, we spend millions of dollars sending people, satellites and other unmanned craft into orbit.
Whatever else he has to say HERE.
A Living Fossil, indeed. Time to Email the News-Leader to pass along to David, who "live in Nevada," but who knows really whether he lives with his Mom, a simple message.
ReplyDelete"We choose to go to the Moon."
And the Inertia shown in his argument has shifted, as difficult to stop as it was to start again. We're "going back to the Moon" whether NASA goes back or not, whether he can stop us with regulation or not.
"1970 called. They want their weak perspective back"
David, God Bless you, but "what you mean by "we" White Man. There's no me in your "we." The "we that includes "me" is heading out.
"Columbus already went to the New World. Spain needs to work on social justice here at home before spending Royal Treasure heading out over the horizon. There's nothing there, anyway.