...And good riddance to this empty-science boondoggle that's based, essentially, on TNT strapped to a tin can with people inside -- while media weep lachrymose tears. Total cost of this program: $200 billion. Yield: Tang, some dramatic photos (including tragic ones), plus decades of mind-numbing purple prose from the Victorian Gentlemen of the Space Program Press Corps.
Time now to renew and rejuvenate our serious, scientifically thrilling efforts in exploring the actual universe -- you know, real outer space, unmanned, and not focus on a piece of junk barely in orbit, a mere 200 miles up?
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Yeah, uh . . . umm . . . just WHAT IS IT that SkyLab ever did? Grow sprouts upside down?
What DOES the Space Station do? I mean, what on EARTH does it, has it, did it ever, or will it ever do?
I cannot recall a SINGLE ACHIEVEMENT or statement of purpose for that thing, that's cost 14 lives so far . . . just a bunch of people with sweaty armpits floating around in zero-G, occasionally going outside to "fix" something . . . and that's it!
Is there some website somewhere that lists all the things the Space Station has achieved?
It
BOONDOGGLES
THE
MIND.
I got a letter on this in last Sunday's web edition of the Sunday Dialog: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-americas-future-in-space.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Personally I find the unmanned space program far more exciting than the manned program, which is severely hobbled by safety concerns.
Edward Reid
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