Discovery just flew overhead ...

[Ken Stallings]

....Only three more space shuttle flights left......

With no other manned space flight option available in the United States for the foreseeable future now that Constellation has been cancelled.

Frankly, I am not celebrating these last flights because I am much sadder that we are throwing away our manned space program with each final shuttle flight!

Ken

 

[tigisfat]

With no other manned space flight option available in the United States for the foreseeable future now that Constellation has been cancelled.

Frankly, I am not celebrating these last flights because I am much sadder that we are throwing away our manned space program with each final shuttle flight!

Ken

Exactly. Advanced aerospace research has preceded nearly all of our technological growth as human beings since manned flight began.

Burt Rutan put it best: We should not look forward to the next phone with an embedded media screen, we should look forward to huge leaps in advanced research, because that is what has saved mankind thus far. If we had not made the same leaps and bounds in aerospace, life would be wholly different.

We must keep pressing forward with technology. Technology fuels jobs, the economy and the industrious spirit of our modern nation. With the hunger for advancement our lives will become creepy and pointless.

The end of our space program as we know it is an ominous dark cloud looming over the road ahead. It says something about the shift in personalities nationwide. I honestly think cancelling advanced research and exploration will lead to our eventual fall in global economic standings as well as eventually threatenin national security. We'll feel bad our priorities were feeding the lazy when some vicious renegade country that doesn't care about peace steamrolls us.