Whenever I run across his posts (‘Space Advocate,’ you really should remove references to Facebook, when posting elsewhere. We don’t do ‘like’ here.) and respond with facts and supporting links, he simply re-posts the same, pushing my comments out of sight…

Names of countries, please?

Was? The real engine of our economy IS the effort on navigation, communication, and surveillance/resource detection that continues to dominate our space efforts. If by United States Space Program you mean NASA’s human space flight effort, er, not so. The space economy would go on grandly and proudly if that NASA human space flight effort closed shop entirely. Hope that doesn’t happen, but it’s not being done in the interest of the economy.

“Under the Obama Administration, NASA is waving the white flag as other countries forge ahead with plans for human lunar exploration and settlement. This is a national disgrace!”

Lunar settlement is in no way shape or form a national priority. It would be a national disgrace if our President was pursuing efforts that weren’t consistent with national priorities.

“Support the REAL Space Act of 2013 and America’s triumphant return to the Moon!”

Triumphant? Give me a break. Triumph would be doing something hard AND important. A return of humans to the Moon is, in itself, hardly important. Apollo 17 was, I guess, a “triumphant return to the Moon” but, gee, it was really not looked at that way at the time. I guess the potential for triumph increases with time. So let’s put the return off another decade or two, whereby it’ll end up being MORE triumphant! The REAL Space Act is being reintroduced this year because last year it went nowhere. It didn’t even get out of subcommittee. By the way, the last line of text in this bill is “The budget requests and expenditures of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall be consistent with achieving this goal.” Presto, money!

Of course they can’t get this legislation into a real authorization bill, so they throw it out in an easily ignorable stand-alone bill.

This isn’t space advocacy. It’s just silly.

Instead call for NASA to spend what resources it has on developing the assets needed for allowing commercial to spearhead the effort. Commercial has a much better chance of getting the job done and we should support that. Who’s developing affordable launch? Commercial (SpaceX). Who’s developing affordable habitats? Commercial (Bigelow Aerospace).

Expecting the government to finance an actual meaningful manned space program is foolishness. They are not going to do it. They’ve proven it. Let the people who actually want to get this done lead the way. They are in commercial space. That’s just the way it is.

The United States Space Program was an engine of our economy!

Under the Obama Administration, NASA is waving the white flag as other countries forge ahead with plans for human lunar exploration and settlement. This is a national disgrace!

Support bipartisan legislation that sets NASA’s focus on the Moon! Specifically, the REAL Space Act of 2013 directs NASA to plan to return to the Moon by 2022 and develop a sustained human presence there as a stepping stone for future exploration.

Support the REAL Space Act of 2013 and America’s triumphant return to the Moon!

http://www.facebook.com/REALSpaceAct2013

Link to Congressman Bill Posey’s web site included below.

http://posey.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=327243

Link to Congressman Bill Posey’s bill is included below.

“http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113%3AH.R.1446%3A”

IF YOU CARE ABOUT AMERICA’S SPACE PROGRAM, “LIKE” THIS PAGE AND SPREAD THE WORD!

President Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration in 2004. In the document released in Feb of 2004, it stated multiple times, a landing on the moon as early as 2015 and no later than 2020.

By the time a bi partisan congress refused to fund it anymore and canceled it, the earliest landing on Luna had moved to right to 2033. A total of 29 years. In this respect Winasovich is correct Russia cut their plan to only 26 years.

Is Vlad keen on a trip?

“Kremlin announced the 26-year plan in state-run newspaper this morning

Deputy PM says moon is only realistic source of minerals and resources

First mission to launch in 2016 and ‘base will be up and running by 2040′ ”

yup the Russians are going to do in only 26 years what was going to take us 29 years.

They almost did it in 1968, after all. Today’s Soyuz technology is better, Inverted sensors not withstanding, the Proton is more reliable than back when it was new. Talk continues to be inexpensive. As someone else here is fond of saying of Commercial Crew (which at least has some regularly working hardware to this end, with more on the way), when will they fly somebody?

I would not expect their invitation, nor are they crying to go to the Moon with us, either. Meanwhile, the former alternative to Obama, still doesn’t look like he’d look kindly on someone who came to him with Moon base plans…