NASA Ends Plan To Put Man Back On Moon

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from The Times Online: "NASA has begun to wind down construction of the rockets and spacecraft that were to have taken astronauts back to the Moon — effectively dismantling the US human spaceflight programme despite a congressional ban on its doing so. Legislators have accused President Obama's administration of contriving to slip the termination of the Constellation programme through the back door to avoid a battle on Capitol Hill."

Good Riddance

[PiAndWhippedCream]

Unless we can set up a colony there, it just isn't worth it.

The moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.

YEAHHHHHHHH!

Re:Look for the upside

[catmistake]

I vote we just send you to the Moon... with no health insurance.

Just shoot another one.

[Renderer of Evil]

They should just shoot another Moon landing footage on a studio lot in Burbank. That should be enough for another 40 years of national bravado.

Except this time we'll do it in 3-D and put it on Pay-Per-View with heavy product placement. Doritos Moonwalk? Why Not?

Re:Good

[MichaelSmith]

The problem is, with whatever-will-replace-the-Shuttle system scrapped... we've got nothing capable of docking at IIS left.

I don't think IIS is involved. Its the International Space Station.

Re:The U.S. then cedes space dominance then?

[Macrat]

Don't forget the funding of that idiot "Blair" on "NASA Edge."

Re:Good Riddance

[Macrat]

he moon, you see, is a harsh mistress.

The wife is worse when she finds out you have a mistress.

Re:Good

[catmistake]

"I Imagine Security," because running IIS, that's the only way you can sleep at night... a good imagination.

Re:Good

[Linker3000]

International In-space Station

Re:Look for the upside

[catmistake]

It's all a matter of perspective. From Sagan's perspective, we're already in space, on a great big blue space ship. Sure, it sorta only does this one loop, repeated... but if it's good enough for millions of NASCAR fans, it's good enough for you. We'll even let you drive, as long as you don't attempt to turn left.

Re:Look for the upside

[JockTroll]

"Saying we would never have happened upon velcro or microwaves without NASA just because that is historically what played out is simpleton logic."

Ah, the reasoning of the unworthy. Columbus himself had to deal with it, when a dumpload of Spanish buffoons told him that every fuckin' spaniard could have done the same as him. His answer? He beat up the spanish nerd and shit on his face. Sort of.

Would you rather have the stuff now or when some dude happens to think about it some decades after you're dead, POS? Without aerospace tech and the Cold War, you couldn't have that fancy GPS you use to get to your scat kiddie porn peddler.
Without WW2 and tons of research into jet engines and radars, you couldn't get on a plane and fly to Thailand to have sex with underage boys.
Your whole life as a pedophile geek would be miserable, even if less so than when I get my hands on you, rip your limbs from your torso and shit into your braincase. Afterwards, you will wish it could have been invented a thousand years in the future. Yes, you will THINK, because for the first time in your miserable life there will be something - my shit - doing the thinking in your moldy, maggot-infested skull.

Societal Fractal

[bill_mcgonigle]

The old ________ has finally caught up with itself and now without the ________ we must pay the penance for its mistakes and not having proper plans afterwards.

There, generalized that for you.