Enter your comments on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program study here: Please provide input by January 30, 2009!It's time to put your 21st century thinking cap because you've been invited to take part in a new study into why the U.S. has a space program. The new study "Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program" is looking for the public's view
For the purposes of this study, the U.S. civil space program encompasses activities from NASA, NOAA, FAA, and the commercial space sector. Please provide input by January 30, 2009! This is our chance to provide our ideas for the immediate future of US space exploration.aristarchusinexile wrote:I don't think there is a civil space program. The goals of every major nation's space programs' seem to be national defence/aggression. Fireworks are just part of the brainwashing of the masses to make them think their tax money is used for peaceful purposes.
) if i can say easy. From there, all the solar system should be ready to be colonise too. I mean with new nuclear space engine. (Nuclear solid core or liquid core or ionic one or pluse detonation engine. You name it... It can't hurt to submit your views, anyway. It's a project of the National Acadamies. It's not government sponsored. At worst, they'll just discard them. Personally, I think the future lies in international collaboration and cooperation, like the ISS and joint NASA and ESA (RKA, JAXA, CSA, CNSA, et al) projects.Doum wrote:Being outside US, my opinion or view dont count for them since i dont pay taxe in US or just a few by the tiny help my country is doing in space exploration.
Yea, "lets all go to the moon and beyong." What a fun it will be.dgjumper wrote:In my opinion the Space Program Goals should lead to the benifits of the people all over the world.It is not the mater of Americans but all the human beings
Beyonging is something I haven't tried yet. I'm going to google it.Doum wrote:Yea, "lets all go to the moon and beyong." What a fun it will be.dgjumper wrote:In my opinion the Space Program Goals should lead to the benifits of the people all over the world.It is not the mater of Americans but all the human beings
zbvhs wrote:When - if ever - will results be published?
bystander wrote:Report due July 31, 2009.
The National Acadamies Project Information: Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program
So why are the North Koreans and Iranians condemned for launching sattelites? No broohahhah was launched when the Japanese did it.dgjumper wrote:The out space doesn't belong to anybody,but everyone who gets the ability can do somthing about the space research.Just for a better life of all human beings.Americans do a good job in this field,but there are much more things nees us to do.
It is purely because the technology to put satellites in space can also be utilized to carry Nuclear and Biological warheads to be dropped on you and I. There is no "broohahhah" over Japan doing this because Japan, due in part to Peace Accords signed to end aggressions and end WWII, expressly prohibits Japan from developing such weapons and they don't. There is no secret that N Korea has developed "the bomb" but currently doesn't have the technology capable of delivering a payload to space and thereby intercontinentally. It is also no secret that Iran is attempting to create "The Bomb". It would likely be easier for them to create "The Missile" first and the payload later. Or They could simply wait for their friends, the Taliban, to take over Pakistan (which is already nuclear capable)aristarchusinexile wrote:So why are the North Koreans and Iranians condemned for launching sattelites? No broohahhah was launched when the Japanese did it.dgjumper wrote:The out space doesn't belong to anybody,but everyone who gets the ability can do somthing about the space research.Just for a better life of all human beings.Americans do a good job in this field,but there are much more things nees us to do.
01-May-2009: On 11 May 2009 the Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch with a crew of seven to visit the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and carry out the fifth and final servicing mission. The replacement and repair of several instruments will see Hubble equipped to continue its programme of discovery well into the next decade.
