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Debate: A Space Program for the Rest of Us
By Rand Simberg - AOL News(April 15) -- While my admiration for and gratitude to Neil Armstrong and other astronauts and NASA officials from the Apollo era know no bounds, that doesn't mean they are the first people to whom I would go for space policy advice. The job of an astronaut or a flight director requires a certain skill set, but it doesn't necessarily include cost analysis or economics. And it shows in their recent open letter protesting the Obama administration's new space policy. When they say that the decision to end the Constellation program is "devastating," they ignore how devastating that program was to ...
Pulling the Plug on Space Travel: One Small Step for Obama's Budgetary Math
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWhen John Kennedy made his commitment to land a man on the moon by the end of 1960s, the New Frontier president expressed a dream that went far beyond Cold War pride in planting an American flag on the lunar surface. Addressing a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961, Kennedy also spoke glowingly of the "promise of some day providing a means for even more exciting and ambitious exploration of space, perhaps beyond the moon, perhaps to the very end of the solar system itself." Nearly half a century later, the last flickering embers of that dream were extinguished in a single bullet point ...
One Small Step for Science, One Giant Leap Away From Celebrity
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThursday is the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 to the moon, where astronaut Neil Armstrong famously took a giant leap for mankind (that's us, too, ladies!) and a small step for man (just you fellows that time.) How to celebrate this? Well, you could read up on the history of space travel! You could watch old footage of the moon landing! You could get some cardboard boxes, markers and tin foil and build an Apollo 11 replica of your own! Or, you could sweep up clippings of Neil Armstrong's hair into a little plastic bag and dig up his voided checks to be sold to the highest bidder! ...
Apollo 11 and September 11: The Power of Symbols
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyTwice in my lifetime the world stopped to watch a single event on TV: On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon. And on Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers fell. There's one ironic connection: Both were the product of metal and fuel, technology in the service of human will. But a specific dissonance is even more striking. ...
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