Showing posts with label Space Shuttle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Shuttle. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Turning from the Heavens

Turning from the Heavens

The American Space Shuttle program has ended; the ability of the United States to put a human into orbit above the Earth is nothing more than a relic in a museum.  Now we must rely on Cosmonauts (Russia) to put Americans in space.  Is there not something wrong with this picture?

Once, America competed with the Soviets to dominate space and in that race we put a man on the moon.  Now we have ceded that realm.  As a nation, we have stepped back from the Heavens and been brought back down to Earth.  Perhaps this event is symbolic of something larger--a great humbling, perhaps.

Think about the nation to which the Space Shuttle returns.  A nation drowning in debt.  A nation being purposely divided by every characteristic you can attribute to a human.  A nation awash in the acceptance and practice of sexual perversions...general carnality.  A nation whose military, the hammer of the world, will experience budget cuts in excess of $1 trillion over the next decade.  A nation that prevents itself from exploiting its own natural resources, and instead remains fettered to peoples who seek our destruction.  A nation who has made the immoral legal, and as a result murders millions of innocent children every year.  A nation who continues to seek leaders who reject the idea that we have unalienable rights, given to us by our Creator, and instead seek to create a utopia made by human hands.

Indeed, our inability to launch humans into space is symbolic of the larger problem that we face as a nation.  When once we sought the Heavens, we now seek the pleasures of the Earth.  If we do not reflect upon our actions and change our ways, we will experience worse events than this.

Disclaimer: These opinions are solely my own, and do not reflect the opinions or official positions of any United States Government agency, organization or department.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

STS-135

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle



On July 20, 1969 10:56 PM EDT, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. landed on the Moon.  The fulfillment of a commitment to human space travel by President John F. Kennedy:
For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the Moon and the Planets beyond.


We Choose to go the Moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept. One we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win.
John F. Kennedy 12 September 1962 Rice University



It has been 42 years since the first Moon landing and 49 years since President Kennedy spoke those moving words.  Yet recently President Barack Hussein Obama not only cancelled the Constellation program, scrubbing the US return to the Moon and then Mars.  And has saddled the US with an enormous cost to send our astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).  The Russians will do it for $50 million dollars each astronaut.

President Obama claims that his plan will create jobs.  He is right.  Jobs for Russians, not Americans as the people of NASA will be downsizing and 1/3 of the NASA work force will be out of work tomorrow.



Ironic isn't it.  When President Obama first took office he was compared to John Kennedy as the second coming of JFK.  I can now paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen with accuracy:
Mr. President, you're no Jack Kennedy!
Indeed not!  Leadership is not his forte.  He has no idea what it is to inspire an nation, to unite a nation, to make us dream.

I was going to make this post one that would look back on the last 30 years of the shuttle program.  Instead I have changed this into a harangue against Obama's NASA policy.  The typical Progressive policy of destroying those programs that don't give funds directly to his cronies (SEIU).

I will leave you with this last landing ever of the Shuttle:


As the Space Shuttle has pulled into port for the last time, an era has come to an end.

When will America send her best and bravest back into space?  How long will it take?
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