Comments on: What minor presidential candidates think about space (not much)

By: Ferris Valyn

Ferris Valyn — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:42:16 +0000

While I do think we need more discussion about spaceflight, the idea that we’ll find it from discussions about China I think are false hopes. We really should be talking about private spaceflight to the various canadates. Unfortnatly, I am willing to bet most don’t realize that they’ve voted on legislation concerning this (I know when I contacted John Edwards about it, they hadn’t realized he had voted on it).

But I am glad that someone was able to ask the canadates about this.

By: Mike Fazan

Mike Fazan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:49:20 +0000

Yeah…right. A one-man launch in 2003, followed by a two-man capsule in October 2005? Either they are doing this at an extremely deliberate tortoise-like pace or there are a lot of attempts on which they select to not report. In either case, calling the U.S. to a perceived Chinese threat is pure hyperbole. I say let’s encourage them to waste billions on sending humans to the Moon. We did it nearly 40 years ago, and got nothing but flags, footprints and pretty pictures.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:26:05 +0000

Now that China’s put a man in space you can bet that the rhetoric is going to heat up on the subject. All of the major candidates are aware of this but just don’t want it address it because they don’t want to make China a major campaign issue.