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• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnMXUQzVHNAwSjhpSvXu7OM5Eq40K4Zny4 commented on Space Policy: New Message, Old Voices
  I don't like "me too" posts, but this one goes deep. Like a previous poster, I was bitten by the space bug when I was very young-space art posters on the walls, Doctor Who on the VCR, a telescope that got trundled out on clear evenings-you name it. When I had a chance to work at NASA HQ as a contractor, I took it. No other job, I thought, would be equal, even though I'd worked at other places with good reputations. There seems to be a deep gulf between the gen. public & people who work at NASA &...

• TharsisA330 commented on Space Policy: New Message, Old Voices
  Space is dead.....twitter...Facebook...texting is the leading edge of Society.....not kerosene fueled cylinders..........

• ASFalcon13 commented on Space Policy: New Message, Old Voices
  "One thing that is really starting to annoy me: all of the complaining about - or campaigning for - this new policy does is being done by people in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s - most of whom had their shot in the sun a generation or more ago. Where are the voices of the people who will inherit this space program and actually go to these new places? I do not see them being interviewed. And who will be at the Space Conference/Summit/Flyby event at KSC? The usual hand-picked suspects, I suppose - all fighting over table scraps...

• decdogluvr commented on Space Policy: New Message, Old Voices
  It amazes me that Neil Armstrong is considered a relic. He's an American icon and discoverer. His opinion matters no matter what age he becomes. As long as he can speak, I will personally respect what he has to say....

• Frank Sietzen commented on Space Policy: New Message, Old Voices
  Neil Armstrong chose long ago to retreat from the public eye. BUzz on the other hand has been preaching the gospel of commercial space and Mars exploration for the better part of a quarter century. People have laughed at him, insulted him, even humiliated him. But he persevered with his message. Today, April 15, 2010 his message was heard and codified into proposed national policy. unblike some who come out of the woodwork only once in a "blue Moon" (ok, my joke) Buzz has pushed the idea of access to space for the next generation for many years. that's why...