How do you feel about Obama's space plan and the future repercussions?
With the shuttle program ending, we need to depend on Russia to send our astronauts to the International Space Station and Russia is raising the price, thoughts?
If we are out of the space race and the aerospace companies lose contracts and have to fire employees, what impact do you think it will have on the country coming out of the recession?
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Constellation is already over-budget and missing deadlines and there isn't even a functional vehicle yet. At the same time, Space-X has made major progress at a much lower cost. Base on the current status of Falcon-9 and Dragon, Space-X will have vehicles capable of LEO and GTO within 5 years and manned vehicles in 10.
As far as lost jobs are concerned, I'm torn. On the one hand, I hate to see anybody lose their job, especially STEM-focused careers. On the other hand, this is a direct result of these companies' track record on NASA projects. There is also nothing prevent them from focusing more on commercial space flight. People still need to launch stuff into orbit, even if that stuff doesn't contain people.
Finally, while Niel Armstrong disagrees with the plan, many experts support it. I've inlcuded articles about 2 of these experts below.
Details about Space-X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
Buzz Aldrin's Viewpoint http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002451-503544.html
Phil Platt's Viewpoint http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/02/01/president-obamas-...
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