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2021-07-02 Home Front: Politix
NASA Is Right: Billionaire Space Welfare Kings Shouldn't Get Special Treatment [BPR]
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Posted by Albemarle Fillmore3735 2021-07-02 05:47|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 "New confidential documents and letters recently obtained by The Verge also demonstrate that the company [SpaceX] deliberately ignored safety warnings in the hours leading up to a December launch, which ended in a massive explosion. "

What a load of crap. The rocket did everything perfectly up to the moment it needed to reignite its engines -- that failed and the "massive explosion" was it crashing into the landing pad.

This whole article reads like a bureaucrat whose upset private ventures are making progress and threatening his rice bowl.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-07-02 06:51||   2021-07-02 06:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this the END for Hubble? Experts say 31-year-old space telescope is 'beyond repair' despite NASA insisting there are 'multiple options' to try and fix it almost three weeks after computer glitch caused it to crash
Posted by Skidmark 2021-07-02 08:40||   2021-07-02 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 ^^^^
Shhhh...don't let the cat out of the bag, with a few covert visits by DARPA to Hubble, a little reverse engineering, you got a ....


Posted by Crolutle Glatle5334 2021-07-02 08:50||   2021-07-02 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Hard to end welfare for the gifted that has fumbled a lot since Apollo ended. Adapt or perish.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-02 17:51||   2021-07-02 17:51|| Front Page Top

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