Nasa chief fired as Trump administration vents frustration over moon landing delays

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(07-19-2019, 05:36 AM)BakertheBeast Wrote: Trump, being a great visionary is just looking and planning ahead to the future. Once he and the right wing Trumplican congress destroy this planet due to their climate denying , we will need another planet to live on. Give the man some credit.

The previous two Presidents over a span of 16 years also wanted to land people on a surface that wasn't Earth (Bush the Moon, and Obama on Mars). NASA hasn't managed to make any real progress towards either goal, and is still at least 4 years away from even test firing the rocket that would theoretically take them to the Moon so they can perfect the technology/techniques to be on Mars.

If it takes you at least 20 years to even test fire the rocket to make one of these Presidential goals happen, this isn't a Trump issue, but a NASA issue. 

Shit, NASA doesn't even launch their own astronauts to the ISS anymore. That's outsourced to the Russians (this was pre-Trump, before you get your undies in a bunch by the mention of Russians). This is despite the fact that the Russians spend only about 19.1% as much as the US does on their space program. It's kind of embarrassing that the country who first put man on the Moon, now 50 years later has to ship their astronauts to Kazakhstan to get to the ISS in a Russian Soyuz.

NASA sent men to the moon 8 years after JFK's speech. It's been done successfully 6 times already. The technology and materials are so much greater now. It should take less time than last time.