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Originally Posted by Willravel
People like to judge things they're not familiar with, supersix2. Don't let them get to you.
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It wouldn't get to me...if the morons running this country weren't the ones listening to the naysayers. It's really popular to go after NASA for being a government money hog...when in reality it's not. So when politicians and such exploit the economy, the environment, and a bunch of new political buzzwords it becomes really easy to siphon money away from a government organization that is actually making progress and benefits everyone not only in the US but in the world.
It also wouldn't be so bad if the so called "private space industry" was moderately successful and had any hopes of putting humans into space in the near term. NASA makes space flight look easy in the public eyes but most certainly is not. You can only do so much to cut costs before you start radically cutting safety. Unfortunatley right now, NASA and other government run space programs (Russia, Europe, China) are the only ones capable of spending the amounts of money it takes to put people into space safely.
On a side note, I accidentally added my horrid misspelling of "Unfortunatley " to my dictionary for spell check (how unfortunate)...and because I'm an engineer and can't spell I am not capable of correcting it myself. How can I edit my spell check dictionary?