1903 - 1953, 50 years, the time it took to have one million airline passengers a year in the United States.
1961 - ????, to equal the progress in aviation, space transportation must carry one million passengers to Earth orbit in the year 2011. NASA has planned that they will still be flying the same four Space Shuttles to orbit eight times a year till the year 2012. That means that 125,000 people will have to be on each shuttle!
IT'S NOT A MOVIE, ASTEROID! COMING TO THE PLANET YOU LIVE ON, BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Give someone a ride on a Space Shuttle and you give them an adventure. Teach them how to build and run a private space transportation industry and you give Humanity a future in Space.
UFO abduction or NASA which is the better odds of getting you into Space.
ISS = INCREDIBLE * STUPIDITY SQUARED
Of what use is Space? Standard reply; Of what use is a small child? My thought; Hey! this kid's 40 years old! It's high time it got a job and started to earn it's keep.
Act Globally, Think Universally
The goal of space colonization is to make Space the safest place in the Solar System for human beings to live.
In 1997, US commercial airlines carried 599 Million passengers! NASA, about 45. NASA is way way behind.
SPACE the greatest threat to the status quo in 500,000 years.
Remember the old truck on "Beverly Hillbillies"? If Jed Clampitt had to depend on government transportation, he'd still be stuck in the hills, there wouldn't have been a TV show, and Buddy Ebsen wouldn't have got to say all those great lines. "Well Doggies!"
NASA will soon have to compete with a Chinese manned space program. How to stop the Chinese? Easy invite them to join the ISS.
They're building a monument over the National Nuclear Waste Depository that is planned to last 50,000 years. Why are we planning for the collapse of human civilization? If we had a future in Space we wouldn't have to worry about such a monument.
THE PURPOSE OF THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IS NOT TO SUPPLY NASA WITH CHEAP TRANSPORTATION INTO SPACE. THE PURPOSE OF THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IS TO SERVE THE PUBLIC'S DESIRE TO OCCUPY AND UTILIZE THE RESOURSES OF SPACE.
30 years since Apollo 11, imagine if thirty years after Lindbergh only 4 government research aircraft were flying back and forth across the Atlantic. I'd be worried!
"NASA is about lifting the human spirit into Space." Hey Dan Goldin, I want the rest of me up there too!
NASA spends $5 Billion a year on space transportation without a dime of revenue much less profit. Show me a private company that can spend $5 Billion without any revenue or profit, and I'll consider it fair for NASA to compete with the private sector.
The International Space Station has been in orbit over 6 months, it can now be considered obsolete.
We started out as the Flintstones, thought we were going to be the Jetsons, but wound up as the Simpsons. Bummer.
If the dinosaurs HAD DONE everything that NASA HAS DONE, they would still be extinct.
People ask me how can we live in Space, there's no food, no water, no air! I ask how can people live in Los Angeles, there's no food, no water, no air!
"CRASS COMMERCIAL GAIN". People say that like it's a communicable disease. What's wrong with making money, the world runs on money, somebody has to make it. HOORAY for the Capitalists!
OK, I'm biased, I'm on Earth and can't get into Space. Your on Earth too, you should be biased too!
BASIC NASA RULES- NASA payloads fly on NASA rockets- NASA astronauts live in NASA spacecraft- A good project supports the budget- Defend the bureaucracy against ALL competitors
I now suspect that the space program was setup to benefit the hotel conference industry.
The only thing NASA will develop on the space station is a bigger budget.
Calvin Coolidge - Buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it. Today - We have four Space Shuttles and we let the astronauts take turns flying them. This is progress?
Pro sports - tax subsidies
Internet - not taxed to encourage growth
Space - taxed and regulated to prevent growth.
If you're not making plans to avoid extinction, your a prime candidate for extinction.
The question is, is living in Space a right or a privilege?
I've been fortunate to see human beings walk on the Moon in my lifetime, will people born after 1972 get to see humans walk on the Moon in their lifetimes? At what point will the "Space Age" shift from fact, to legend, to myth?
New moons, new planets, sure, but profit is the one thing NASA cannot discover in Space.
The NASA Space Shuttles are a lot like High Definition TVs, really great, but we need more than four of them.
The "Space Age" is not about limited space science, it's about moving human civilization into Space.
True progress in Space is about going farther and staying longer, things NASA hasn't done since 1975.
Since military payloads no longer fly on the Space Shuttles, "Assured Access" is no longer a NASA mission, they can switch to supporting free enterprise; IF they want too.
It is now established that it will be 5 to 7 decades before the next human being walks on the Moon. There are now alive people that will NOT live long enough to see a human being walk on the Moon.
NASA AS AMERICA'S STATE AIRLINE FOR SPACE, "RIGHT ENOUGH TO BE DANGEROUSLY WRONG, AND IT HAS ARGUABLY LED US SERIOUSLY ASTRAY."
Adapted from "In Search of Excellence"