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Quote:I gather your measuring stick for "new tech" is a new type of craft. Hard to do when rocket boosters are the only way currently to get out of orbit. Without access to research I am sure plenty of scientific advancement has occurred within NASA Nuclear rockets were researched in the 1970s. There was progress made but it was abandoned in the anti-nuclear environment of the times. NASA could have restarted that program, but it was easier to just use the same old chemical rockets. After all, there was no challenge the were handed that required a order of magnitude leap in rocket tech. The space station is a huge white elephant. It doesn't do anything that Mir or Skylab couldn't do. A useful space station would have been one where larger vehicles could be assembled for distant trips (Mars, anyone?). Right now the only vision of a manned Mars trip is in a capsule. Imagine four months stuck in a tin can. Ideally the ISS would be moved into a Mars-crossing orbit and used as a rec center for astronauts travelling to Mars. Instead it will eventually just be dropped into the Pacific like Mir. There certainly has been scientific advancement in NASA. They still design and build spacecraft that accumulate tons of new information. NASA scientists collect, reduce, analyze and distribute the results. But they use technological improvements developed by private enterprise. The reason we get Cassini, Messenger, New Horizons etc. is because of the huge advances in computers and digital imaging. New Horizons got a free ride by using a test launch of the Atlas 5, another private enterprise advancement (admittedly just another chemical rocket using existing technology and a Soviet engine design). I love the scientific spacecraft work NASA does, but that's just a small fraction of a budget that is mostly waste. "Why should I give information to you when all you want to do is find something wrong with it?" |
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