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NASA and Diversity
The United States may lose its leading position in space exploration, if
it fails to replace quickly its ailing shuttle fleet with a new reliable space vehicle, the head of NASA has said. *Michael Griffin, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told Congress on Thursday that such a move would not be possible without in turn sacrificing some valuable science programmes.The warning came as the House of Representatives Committee on Science pondered options in the face of the continued grounding of the space shuttle fleet. NASA put an indefinite halt on shuttle launches after a chunk of insulating foam fell off Discovery's large external fuel tank during lift-off last July. NASA is also troubled by a large exodus of experienced engineers and technicians retiring or leaving NASA for other pursuits. * * OPINION- We all know "Diversity" is politically correct terminology for NO HETEROSEXUAL WHITE MALES OVER 40 (You know the people who got us to the moon in 1969) Is Diversity really cloaked Reverse-Racism? * http://www.diversitybusiness.com/Res...Divlists/2005/ * Any connection maybe to the failures and problems at NASA? * * America's Top Organizations for Multicultural (Anything but White Male) Business Opportunities - 2005 * Rank Top Government Agencies 1 UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS) *2* * National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)* 3 Small Business Administration 4 Minority Business Development Agency 5 Department of Transportation 6 U.S. Navy 7 Department of Defense 8 U.S. Army 9 U.S. Air Force 10 Defense Logistics Agency 11 General Services Administration 12 Department of Veterans Affairs 13 Department of Housing and Urban Development 14 Department of Commerce 15 Department of Justice 16 Agency for International Development 17 Department of Health and Human Services 18 Department of Agriculture 19 Department of Education 20 Department of Energy |
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On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:25:00 -0500, DILLIGAF
wrote in :: The United States may lose its leading position in space exploration, if it fails to replace quickly its ailing shuttle fleet with a new reliable space vehicle, the head of NASA has said. *Michael Griffin, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told Congress on Thursday that such a move would not be possible without in turn sacrificing some valuable science programmes. Well, if some Texas cowboy hadn't squandered the federal surplus he inherited from the Clinton administration, there'd be adequate funding for science and education. :-) Oh well, at least we've got 1,300,000 of our sons and daughters in Iraq and a new (if nonfunctional) Department of Homeland Security. Don't you think the money is better spent on that sort of thing than education and science? |
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"DILLIGAF" wrote in message ... Don't post in HTML. It makes you look like a fool. Oh, wait. You are a fool. |
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ... http://money.cnn.com/1999/06/28/economy/clinton/ NEW YORK (CNNfn) - President Clinton on Monday proposed paying off the national debt by 2015 after issuing a new budget outlook that adds $1 trillion more to the overall budget surplus over the next 15 years. You do realize that those 15 year number really are the silliest estimates in the world. Even the old USSR had the since to only make a 5 year plan which changed every year. |
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Well, if some Texas cowboy hadn't squandered the federal surplus he
inherited from the Clinton administration, It was sure nice of Mr. Clinton to have invented this internet stuff for us such that federal revenues would grow. However, I'm not sure why he didn't choose to stop 9/11. Ah well, at least we know the president controls everything. -Robert |
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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message ups.com... Well, if some Texas cowboy hadn't squandered the federal surplus he inherited from the Clinton administration, It was sure nice of Mr. Clinton to have invented this internet stuff for us such that federal revenues would grow. However, I'm not sure why he didn't choose to stop 9/11. Ah well, at least we know the president controls everything. -Robert Gore invented the internet, Clinton invented altrernative uses for cigars. |
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Larry Dighera wrote:
Well, if some Texas cowboy hadn't squandered the federal surplus he inherited from the Clinton administration, there'd be adequate funding for science and education. :-) This is an utterly ridiculous statement. The amount spent by NASA is tiny - miniscule. Double tiny and you still have tiny. Bush, through the Fed coordinator, just submitted a request for 4.2 billion for Katrina: http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=5426 And he'll most likely get it. All of which shows that if the will exists to spend the money, the money can be found. This is true for the Space program and science and as well. $4.2 gig is about a quarter of the NASA budget. There's a whole flamewar all unto itself regarding the dollars spent for education but I point out one fact to you: the US spends the most per student and we get the mediocre results. Fact is that there isn't the political will to spend 20, 40 50 billion more on the space program. Neither in the public nor the government. Besides, NASA isn't the place to spend that. And as a Disclaimer I work on a NASA project: The CHANDRA X-Ray Orbiting Observatory. I don't work for NASA, but the Smithsonian Institution Center for Astrophysics. NASA was at it's best when it was NACA - researching, Demo'ing, and proofing technological ideas and hardware. Then letting other institutions (including private) use the technology. This was synergistic: private capital wasn't sunk into risky technological research, and NASA wasn't managing projects more efficiently managed by private institutions. But I admit, this is my opinion only. No sensible business would have kept the Shuttle going after it failed, at the outset, to deliver the performance. And especially not the safety. So spending billions on a NASA-based space program is, in my opinion, wasteful. And I'm talking as one who would like to see Constellation-X fly someday (project just got stretched out). There's hope though: We are seeing a replay of the 20's and 30's. there's work on rocket powered air racing; the X-prize was won and Diamandis is working on another more lofty (pun intended) goal. This is one way aviation technology leaped ahead in the past, and how space technology may leap ahead in the future. Note that these are private enterprises. |
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"Saville" wrote We are seeing a replay of the 20's and 30's. there's work on rocket powered air racing; the X-prize was won and Diamandis is working on another more lofty (pun intended) goal. This is one way aviation technology leaped ahead in the past, and how space technology may leap ahead in the future. Note that these are private enterprises. You have to be kidding! If you think that the present proposed rocket racing is going to lead to new advances, you are badly out of touch with reality. -- Jim in NC |
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"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message ... "Larry Dighera" wrote in message ... http://money.cnn.com/1999/06/28/economy/clinton/ NEW YORK (CNNfn) - President Clinton on Monday proposed paying off the national debt by 2015 after issuing a new budget outlook that adds $1 trillion more to the overall budget surplus over the next 15 years. You do realize that those 15 year number really are the silliest estimates in the world. Even the old USSR had the since to only make a 5 year plan which changed every year. Quite so. The CNN report is dated June 28, 1999. Eight and a half months later, in March, 2000, the dot.com boom, that fed the tax coffers, collapsed. Caused in part by the FCC's idiotic regulations on the telecoms (to support the internet craze), it was exacerbated by the tax increases that strangled a quick recovery. |
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Well, if some Texas cowboy hadn't squandered the federal surplus he
inherited from the Clinton administration, Someone's been reading that clueless, pathological liar and idiot Paul Krugman. |
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