Comments on: Four misconceptions about the new space initiative http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/22/four-misconceptions-about-the-new-space-initiative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=four-misconceptions-about-the-new-space-initiative Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Edward Duma http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/22/four-misconceptions-about-the-new-space-initiative/#comment-155 Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:37:42 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=78#comment-155 The new space race …to be or not to be…

It looks that China is prepared to have similar space programme, even sending men to moon. They are afraid of weapons on circumlunar orbit, due to the fact that China’s Space programme is military.

Again, S.U.A. needs to be one step in front of an supposed enemy.

That’s why Bush hopes to paint the purpose in N.A.S.A. Style.

Anyway, Japan wants also to have a manned programme so who knows what the future might look like…

]]> By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/22/four-misconceptions-about-the-new-space-initiative/#comment-154 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 22:23:06 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=78#comment-154 How about:

5) It will be a shuttle/space station/missile defense style dumb contractor-fest.

Of course its only my fear, but it is based on recent past precedent. What I want to know is where are the brains of NASA’s operation coming from? Boeing, NASA HQ? August committees? Will they be the same people who brought us the shuttle and space station?

]]> By: Bill Turner http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/02/22/four-misconceptions-about-the-new-space-initiative/#comment-153 Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:51:46 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=78#comment-153 “But scientists who see the benefits of space exploration are opposed to the timetable of the man-in-space program, and particularly the schedule set for landing men on the moon. They suggest that the objectives of space research can be realized by robot instruments, with the manned-flight program carried out at a slower pace.

This question requires a further exploration of the motives underlying the United States space effort. Is it primarily a scientific program? Or is it motivated by a broader concern with national interests and national goals?”

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“That brings us to the point on which we take serious issue with some of our scientific colleagues, who complain, “The scientific exploration of the moon has been accorded a secondary priority in the lunar program.” This remark is based on the premise that science should have top priority in the space program. However, while science plays an important role in lunar exploration, it was never intended to be the primary objective of that project. The impetus of the lunar program is derived from its place in the long-range U.S. program for exploration of the solar system.”

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Robert Jastrow and Homer E. Newell. The Atlantic Monthly; August, 1963; Why Land on the Moon; Volume 211, No. 2; pages 41-45

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/63aug/jastrow.htm

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