Comments on: Strategic space goals for the next administration http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration 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: www.actionforspace.com http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36834 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:42:55 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36834 Hillary just accepted an invitation to a presidential debate in Houston, but Barack hasn’t. Perhaps space could come up in a debate in Houston.

]]> By: Dr. Sputnik http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36776 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:24:21 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36776 I guess you (and they) missed the part about the oil based economy, the national debt, the carbon dioxide and global warming, the soon to be 9 to 10 billion souls on the planet and the global mass extinction, eh?

If there ever was a time that we needed a new and improved 50th anniversary year post post Sputnik educational system in America, then by your comments, now definitely is the time. Cantcha see them commies?

Just a quick glance at the Committee for Public Works and the Environment should be enough to convince any rational soul why we have space programs.

]]> By: Anon http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36770 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:36:06 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36770 SNEAD: To change course to enable America to successful compete and win the new space race, the next American president will need to set new strategic goals for civil and commercial space.

I agree that we need to set new strategic goals (more accurately, adopt the strategic goals proposed by the Aldridge Commission), but Snead does not answer the primary question that politicians will ask?

WHY do we need to win the new space race?

WHY do we need to become a “true spacefaring nation”?

WHY do we need to safely and routinely access and operate in space?

If we can’t compellingly answer the “WHY” question, then politicians will continue to ignore us.

– Anon

]]> By: The People http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36766 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:35:02 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36766 I agree that this should be where the action is for human spaceflight. This is not what the Apollo wannabes want though.

]]> By: Dr. Sputnik http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36760 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:44:18 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/02/05/strategic-space-goals-for-the-next-administration/#comment-36760 So is everyone in agreement that America is in a new space race, one which involves the commercialization of low Earth orbit transportation and orbital infrastructure, and that the president’s VSE and Griffin’s ESAS are finshed?

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