America locked put of the Final Frontier? Georgia crisis sparks a new Cold War in space

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:25 AM EDT

Article Source: Telegraph

technology, war, china, russia, space, georgia, nasa, space-shuttle, prc

This should be the ultimate lesson for America: never lose its indepedent space capability. Whilst in reality America almost certainly does have an undisclosed capability far greater than its public program, the fact is that the US may need to rely on Russia or China to put astronauts into the ISS up until 2015. The situation is nothing short of a disgrace and a clear lesson that never again must allow itself be limited in its space faring capability.

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Peter Merel

Space faring? We'll be lucky if we still have commercial airplanes by 2015.

And what the heck is the point of the ISS? It doesn't go anywhere or do anything that an unmanned probe can't do quicker, easier, with a lot less BS. Apart from researching zero-G bone density, flying high school experiments and similar twaddle, what is it for?

If in the '70s we had set up industries in space - asteroid mines, solar power satellites, anything tangible - maybe we could justify manned space flight now. But we didn't and we can't. America could afford space grandstanding in the 60s when it was a rich country and the final frontier seemed full of promise. Here in the real 21st century, America is down and out and space faring is good for nothing.

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#1 - Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:39 AM EDT

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Could not disagree more strongly: space is very much the domain where one can dominate what goes on below and a stepping stone to the wealth that is the solar system. It may take many decades or indeed longer for the payoff to be realised, but man must not limit himself to the earth: and America must lead the charge. America still has the means, there are compelling reasons why space must be focused on...now it just needs the will.

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#1.1 - Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:46 PM EDT

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