The Dork Who Fell To Earth

[frustratedpilot]

(I think theidolhands might want to hear about this little "space oddity".)

Today, my buddy Paul gave me an audio CD copy of content he acquired though his Disney contacts...

...Soundtracks from the Moonliner and Mission To Mars attractions at the Disney theme parks

Comments

[tochiro998]

Yeah, I couldn't quite make that out but...yeah.

What proof do we have that anyone has any serious interest in pushing space further? So OK, maybe the novelty of lofting up to the edge of space will be a thrill for the few that can afford it and more power to them (altho if I understand it properly, passengers will spend something like 10x the time getting to launch altitude then actually spend in space. yawn).

But nobody is building Shuttle 2.0 let alone something BETTER. Nobody is using shuttle COMPONENTS like those powerful main engines or the SRBs (what happened to the ideas of unmanned heavy lifters built from these things? remember that?)

While I wasn't happy that 'fat Apollo' was the replacement, at least it was something.

Stupid, stupid.

I blame the aerospace companies as well. They couldn't see the writing on the wall even now, that milking the contract crap "well, sure we can do that...um...we need another 5 years and a bunch more Billion Dollars, please" just wasn't SMART anymore, not when NASA is always on the knife edge of having their budget cut, ALWAYS getting less money.

Good lord, ship 15% of the unspent 'stimulus' money to NASA and get some jobs going building some new shuttles, that's job creation and blah blah.

my brain, she s'plodes.

[frustratedpilot]

I wasn't so much reacting to the space tourist "shuttlecock" machines as I was to the idea of NASA relying on private providers for getting astronauts and cargo to the ISS.

The problem with the stimulus program is the red tape and the fact that the regulator agencies are watching everything like hawks.