People need to pay attention to Experts! Re Hubble, ISS , Capsules

All experts have said over & over,
1. Hubble needed Shuttle for repair ( or just a piece of debris) Fact!
2. ISS in danger w/o shuttle ( that failure has not occurred yet)
3. Most all said, don't go back to capsules --- we have with possible exception of DreamChaser.
4. Large payload capability gone re Thompson speech at Rice Institute & article by Jason Rhian of AmericanSpace

5. None of above have large payload capability.

But, our liberal gov. Pays no attention to the obvious--- YOU Can't give everybody everything they want with no one working ( no production).

As in space capabilities, uninformed/ unwise decisions result in no capabilities!

NASA's Next Big Space Telescope Coming Together Despite 'Snowzilla'

Better hope it works, remember Hubble --- WE HAVE no repair capabilities---- Shuttle in MUSEUM!


http://www.space.com/31951-james-webb-space-telescope-blizzard-progress.html


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Fwd: NASA Not Space Exploration

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From: "Robert Hooi" <rwlh21@sbcglobal.net>
Date: February 17, 2016 at 11:26:23 PM CST
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Subject: NASA  Not Space Exploration
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Obama's NASA About "Global Warming" Not Space Exploration

By Russ Hepler

 

President Obama's cult-like devotion to the "Climate Change/Global Warming" scam has led to its interjection into just about all federal agencies.

In what was once America's premiere scientific agency, NASA under Obama has become just another huckster for the President's phony-science, "global warming" push.

In his proposed new budget for NASA, this fanaticism is reflected in just how taxpayer moneys are to be spent.

The Daily Caller explains:

The NASA budget President Barack Obama released Tuesday is far more concerned with spending cash on global warming research than supporting the agency's mission of space exploration.

The top scientific question the space agency claims it wants to answer in its budget justification is "How are Earth's climate and the environment changing?" The more typical space questions, such as "Are we alone?" and "How does the universe work?," were at the very bottom of the list.

"This administration cannot continue to tout plans to send astronauts to Mars while strangling the programs that will take us there," Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith , chairman of the House Science Committee, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "President Obama's 2017 budget proposal shrinks our deep space exploration programs by more than $800 million. And the administration once more proposes cuts of more than $100 million to the Planetary Science accounts, which have previously funded missions like this past year's Pluto flyby."

The space agency's budget includes more than $2 billion for its Earth Science Mission Directorate for global warming science, which is specifically allocated to improve climate modeling, weather prediction and natural hazard mitigation. In comparison, NASA's other functions, such as astrophysics and space technology, are only getting a mere $781.5 and $826.7 million, respectively, in the budget proposal.

The American scientific agency that once sent men to the moon and launched probes into deep space, is now being tasked with making Al Gore look good, apparently.

Well, lots of luck to them with that.  They will only be added to the discredited hacks in the rest of the Obama Administration who are playing radical, left-wing politics instead of applying solid science to the mysteries of the universe.

The Daily Caller has more:

"At the same time this proposal shrinks space exploration priorities within NASA's budget,it disproportionately increases Earth Science accounts to more than $2 billion – a seventy percent increase since 2007," Smith continued. "This imbalanced proposal continues to tie our astronauts' feet to the ground and makes a Mars mission all but impossible. This is not the proposal of an administration that is serious about maintaining America's leadership in space."

Spending on NASA's Earth Science Mission Directorate has increased by 63 percent over the last eight years, making it the largest and fastest growing budget of any NASA science program. Over the same time period, the general NASA budget grew only by 10.6 percent — just enough to account for inflation.

The Directorate's goal is to help NASA "meet the challenges of climate and environmental change." The organization is also responsible for global warming models proven to be inaccurate when checked against actual temperature observations.

Obama and Democrats in Congress consider expanding the budget for global warming science to be a political imperative. Obama has repeatedly attempted to cut other NASA directorates, like space exploration, so money could be redirected to global warming science.

This is typical of Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America.  Whereas, we used to lead the world in the exploration of space and the universe, now we are wasting billions to further lies that promote world socialism and destroy American private enterprise and affordable energy.

Obama may continue to put the imprimatur of NASA onto his phony agenda, but the facts will still scream out the truth eventually.

Let us hope NASA isn't all but destroyed by the time Obama and his raging socialists are forced out of town by the next election.

Should not be in a museum-- tragic waste!!

Time-lapse Video Documents Assembly of Webb Telescope Primary Mirror - Universe Today

NASA neglects to inform people that with shuttle in museum, we can't maintain Hubble. Further, if a problem occurs with JWT , no capability to fix! Bm

http://www.universetoday.com/127360/time-lapse-video-documents-assembly-webb-telescope-primary-mirror/


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HubbleSite - Picture Album: The Eagle Has Risen: Stellar Spire in the Eagle Nebula

NASA neglects to inform people that with shuttle in museum, we can't maintain Hubble. Further, if a problem occurs with JWT , no capability to fix!

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/nebula/pr2005012b/


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Fwd: SpaceX Crew Dragon Parachutes Tested Successfully

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: February 17, 2016 at 8:24:38 AM CST
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: SpaceX Crew Dragon Parachutes Tested Successfully

 

Parachutes Pop Open Perfectly in SpaceX Test

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | February 16, 2016 05:25pm ET

SpaceX successfully tested parachutes that will be used on its Dragon spacecraft to bring human passengers back to Earth.

Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX's Dragon is on track. A recent video shows a smooth parachute test for the SpaceX space capsule that will one day ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

In the latest Dragon parachute test video, four red-and-white chutes helped a simulated spacecraft descend to the desert near Coolidge, Arizona, after the system was released from a C-130 cargo aircraft. A Dragon spacecraft was not actually involved in the test. Instead, SpaceX used a mass simulator connected to the parachute system. [SpaceX's Dragon Crew Capsule in Pictures]

https://youtu.be/4PG438XSarg

Dragon has already been used to haul cargo to and from the International Space Station, but SpaceX is now working on a new system to carry up humans starting around 2018. The company is performing final development and certification work for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

"SpaceX continues to perform tests of flight-like hardware that allows engineers to assess the reliability," NASA officials said in a statement. "Later tests will grow progressively more realistic to simulate as much of the actual conditions and processes the system will see during an operational mission."

The first versions of the spacecraft will splash down in ocean, but SpaceX plans to eventually land the spacecraft on land by firing eight SuperDraco engines. SpaceX tested this hover-power ability in Texas in November.

SpaceX and Boeing are working on separate agreements with NASA to bring astronauts to low-Earth orbit destinations. Separately, NASA is also working on developing an Orion spacecraft for missions to the moon, asteroids or other locations deeper in space.

 

SpaceX Crew Dragon Parachutes Tested Successfully | Video

2016, February, 16 05:33

SpaceX dropped a boilerplate spacecraft (similar weight as the future capsule) from an aircraft to test the parachute system. The test was conducted near Coolidge, Arizona.

http://www.space.com/31953-spacex-crew-dragon-parachutes-tested-successfully-video.html

 

 

 

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