0Bama has the Wright Stuff, and that is the problem.
By now you guys should know how I feel about the space program. I feel we should explore earth first.
It has been 30 years since we did the impossible, landed on the moon. Why did we just STOP there and not head out for Mars.?
What is everyone afraid of finding out there.? Those crazy capsules the first astronauts went up in are on display in DC. Insane if you ask me that 30 years ago men climbed in and rode a bomb to the moon and returned alive. The astronauts are a different breed from every day folk. All this using a slide rule.
So why the abrupt stop in our program, sure was not money or lack of scientific minds.
One whole generation after super human feats to be the [ Bear that went over the mountain to see what he could see] ------ we still hunker down on our rock as the Chinese have gotten wanderlust.
We have to decide what is more important to human life, war and misery or working together to solve earths problems and at the same time to see what is outside our back yard.
What are we so afraid of, we have the technology to explore, we have the super men and woman willing to risk life and limb.
Could it be the religious of the world that are afraid perhaps they are threatend by us going out in search of God.?
The super moneyed people that fear a big hit in the pocket book if we loose a few missions due to some accident.?
The average man on the street of any country who cares about their immediate needs and desires.
What ever--for some reason the moon missions ended a long time ago, WHY, who decided we were to go no further.?