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Oct. 3rd, 2004 12:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vernardI don't usually speak out "causes" on my journal. never really thought about it much. But this is one that I think deserves attention.
SpaceshipOne is going up again. Unlike most folks that believe that NASA is simply a waste of money and that it should be dismantled, I personally think it still serves a few very good purposes. however, I think that it has gotten stagnant. There is no reason we can't have both a civilian and a military/government presence. I think that the civilian one will actually force NASA to get with the program and provide us with the leadership that it used to.
I think that NASA is being strangled by government as opposed to nourished by it. But nevertheless, its a good thing.
But the real point of this is for you to go read about this initiaitve and the fact that its about to reach its goal. Its a testimony to the human spirit in many ways.
Ever reaching for the stars.....
SpaceshipOne is going up again. Unlike most folks that believe that NASA is simply a waste of money and that it should be dismantled, I personally think it still serves a few very good purposes. however, I think that it has gotten stagnant. There is no reason we can't have both a civilian and a military/government presence. I think that the civilian one will actually force NASA to get with the program and provide us with the leadership that it used to.
I think that NASA is being strangled by government as opposed to nourished by it. But nevertheless, its a good thing.
But the real point of this is for you to go read about this initiaitve and the fact that its about to reach its goal. Its a testimony to the human spirit in many ways.
Ever reaching for the stars.....
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Date: 2004-10-03 07:00 pm (UTC)I think your suggestion has a lot of merit, with the one reservation that it seems likely, as it now is in much medical research, that only research deemed likely to be immediately commercially profitable would get funded.