A View from Behind the Curtain: Goodbye Space,

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Goodbye Space,

As the good ol' USA outsources its manned space program it will be sad to see us attaching our American Flags to Russian and then Chinese spacesuits. Gone are the days when we had a focus and the attention span to work towards a goal that was more than six months away.

America's German Rocket Scientists

I guess that is what happens when all our German rocket scientists die off. Hopefully the Russian's German rocket scientists are still hanging on, at least until the Chinese's German rocket scientists mature sufficiently to take over.

Goodbye Space....

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The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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Goodbye Space,

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