Comments on: A Mexican space agency?

By: TORO

TORO — Sat, 06 May 2006 04:39:32 +0000

If a large, bureaucratic nation can claim it has a space program, and yet still not be able to get humans to and from low Earth orbit, then it must be both easy and ethical for a small Nigeria or Thailand to claim they have a space program that equally cannot get human beings to and from space.

By: Mike Puckett

Mike Puckett — Tue, 02 May 2006 22:32:55 +0000

Left the ‘R’ out this time though!

By: Shubber Ali

Shubber Ali — Tue, 02 May 2006 05:31:09 +0000

Mike,

i get plenty of fiber every morning, thank you very much.

And you have to work on your typing skills – this is the second time you’ve mispelled my name…

By: BP

BP — Tue, 02 May 2006 04:38:35 +0000

We are not lauching astronauts to space. We are only interested in Mexico´s participation in space proyects at an international level.

AEXA (Mexican Space Agency) member team

By: Mike Puckett

Mike Puckett — Mon, 01 May 2006 22:58:09 +0000

Subber,

Some more fiber in your diet would do wonders for your cynicism

You are sounding like a constipated old curmudgeon (not a dig at Mark Whittington’s site btw)

By: Shubber Ali

Shubber Ali — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:22:53 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me how the alt.space community can take any minor news blip (wow, a whole freakin' $2m for space?!?! they can't even afford a trip to ISS with that!) and blow it into either (a) a great new validation of the Private Space Era ("Coming Soon!") or (b) another threat to try to scare the US government into spending more money on one particular pet project or another... Call me a Cynic.

By: Sam Dinkin

Sam Dinkin — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:54:11 +0000

Mexico may be able to get a low regulation spaceflight regime with third party required coverage that successfully competes for border town US human spaceflight traffic. No environmental impact statement required. With self-ferrying from US, we may even be able to avoid ITAR issues.

By: Greg Kuperberg

Greg Kuperberg — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:32:50 +0000

I wonder how long it will take before they will be able to put a whale on the moon. If spacecraft will be assembled and provisioned on the moon, why not a Marine World to go with them? Even lunar engineers need R&R.

By: Dwayne A. Day

Dwayne A. Day — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:34:38 +0000

Isn’t it great that we have Wikipedia to preserve the important information?

But that was a hilarious episode.

By: Cartman

Cartman — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:16:08 +0000

I realize this is only slightly on-topic but I wonder how long it will take before they will be able to put a whale on the moon.