Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 223 66.0%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.1%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 21.9%
  • Total voters
    338
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SpaceCoastVol said:
SpacEx just launched from California.

I find the employees cheering at every event obnoxious.

ymmv
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pretty sure NASA celebrated each launch.

It means a lot to these people, which is why I think they succeed. I have no problem with them celebrating or holding events for it.
 
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LouderVol said:
pretty sure NASA celebrated each launch.

It means a lot to these people, which is why I think they succeed. I have no problem with them celebrating or holding events for it.
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I don't hear the applause after every milestone (Max Q, MECO, payload deployment, etc...like I do with SpacEx.) I just find it annoying. And it means every bit as much to NASA and USA people as it does to SpacEx.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
I don't hear the applause after every milestone (Max Q, MECO, payload deployment, etc...like I do with SpacEx.) I just find it annoying. And it means every bit as much to NASA and USA people as it does to SpacEx.
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SpaceX definitely publicizes it more, I have second hand info from family who said they celebrated any successful launch.
 
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SpaceX is a young company with a relatively young workforce. I believe these are primary drivers of the cheering at completion of each milestone. NASA has been at this for a long while, but I'd wager it was a very similar environment in its youth.

I get why folks might find it annoying, but it doesn't bother me. Ah, the exuberance of youth!
 
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114VOL said:
Lots of valid reasons. If you need to ask, you've sort of already embarrassed yourself

This is almost like asking why would anyone sail west across the Atlantic?
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Hardly.


There is a really really good reason to go to the moon and establish a base there. Going to Mars is only to prove that you can do it.

But I am willing to entertain your 'lots of valid reasons'.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
Hardly.


There is a really really good reason to go to the moon and establish a base there. Going to Mars is only to prove that you can do it.

But I am willing to entertain your 'lots of valid reasons'.
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Because it's there is good enough reason. One day we will need to leave this planet and we need to start perfecting the technology.
 
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hog88 said:
Because it's there is good enough reason. One day we will need to leave this planet and we need to start perfecting the technology.
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Naaaah. That's weak. Here's a reason to colonize the moon.

ExplainingTheFuture.com : Helium-3 Power

Oil ain't gonna last forever. Chemical rockets need fuel, a LOT of which comes from oil. With the exception of LOX and hypergolic fuels, I believe everything else is oil based. He3 will solve a lot of earth's problems.
 
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hog88 said:
We have the means just not the will.
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Means being Money, and we don’t.

I get what your saying though. Put enough money and resources behind it and almost anything is possible. It’s why we landed a guy on the moon in the same century we invented heavier than air flight.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
Naaaah. That's weak. Here's a reason to colonize the moon.

ExplainingTheFuture.com : Helium-3 Power

Oil ain't gonna last forever. Chemical rockets need fuel, a LOT of which comes from oil. With the exception of LOX and hypergolic fuels, I believe everything else is oil based. He3 will solve a lot of earth's problems.
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I’m all for colonizing the moon, use it as a jump off point to Mars and beyond.
 
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