Earth Sky Stars http://earthskystars.net/blog blog for earthskystars Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:12:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Is Ending NASA’s Constellation Program a Bad Move? http://earthskystars.net/blog/2010/03/03/is-ending-nasas-constellation-program-a-bad-move/ http://earthskystars.net/blog/2010/03/03/is-ending-nasas-constellation-program-a-bad-move/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:06:06 +0000 Bill Clugston http://earthskystars.net/blog/?p=209 Probably not, IMHO. Doing a manned spaceflight program on the cheap was a bad idea. Shifting money from NASA’s unmanned science program to fund this bad idea was even worse.

Many former astronauts believed that Constellation was an accident waiting to happen. Instead of recycling old ideas and hardware let’s do the research and engineering required for a successful space program.

Obama did the right thing by killing a poorly conceived program.

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    One other stand-out feature of the movie was Cameron’s attention to detail. Aircraft actually looked used, the gas giant that Pandora orbited had a fast rotational rate, dust and vapor added to the realism.

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  • Climate change-send a message to Copenhagen, learn how at: http://www.repoweramerica.org/wall/#/view/40310/ #
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