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• Commented on Fact Checking on Campaign Promises

  ".. if we can go to the moon, we can return to stay and lead and go beyond, because we are America." Wow. Because we are America? I always wondered why the Moon was so important. I might have thought...

• Commented on Fact Checking on Campaign Promises

  I'm puzzled about this. It doesn't look like he made a promise. He said he "endorsed the goal" of returning to the Moon by 2020. That means he thought it was a good idea. But what his select committee found...

• Commented on NASA and the Summer of Innovation - Update

  Lostinspace has some good ideas, but this one, that "Students as laboratory trainees and assistants are vital in research, yet they are only occasionally available as dictated by the educational program" is completely misplaced. The NASA educational directorate doesn't fund...

• Commented on More Education Stove Piping at NASA

  It's a good point, but when I talk to friends who teach high school STEM curriculum, they tell me frankly that while human space flight is kind of exciting to their students, there is nothing about launching humans that uniquely...

• Commented on Crowdsourcing NASA

  I guess this is nice. It's always nice that you can find a picture of something you're interested in. But I'm regularly mystified by the goal of stuff like this. Are there people in the general public who have time...

• Commented on NASA Employee Claims To Have Witnessed Hijacking Planning

  "This is not a NASA Website. You might learn something. It's YOUR space agency. Get involved. Take it back. Make it work - for YOU." Using reports of porn-watching Muslim hijackers? Um, right. I'm not sure what to make of...

• Commented on Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Video: Two FR-900 Drives Operational

  Good heavens. What is this video supposed to be showing? That the photographer needs to sober up? I got dizzy watching it....

• Commented on When Others Discover What We Have Forgotten

  What is it that makes these countries desperate to do this stuff? Easy. It's desperation to be looked at as being even on the same page technologically with the space superpowers. It has nothing to do with wanting to be...

• Commented on Going To Mars - To Stay

  "So the first to Mars will be the first willing to go one way. Japan? China?" Ha. Then someone else will come along and do it right. The pictures of their Japanese or Chinese predecessor waving goodbye to them when...