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NASA decline and decadence, a black eye on a proud nation
Space is one of the last frontiers to be conquered by men. Ever since the onset of humanity we have wondered and dreamed what would be to travel amongst the stars. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy, in what became one of the most famous speeches of the twentieth century, proposed going to the moon by the end of a decade. During the time of his speech, the only American who had traveled into space was Alan Shepard, who flew on a fifteen minute suborbital flight. Less than eight years after President Kennedy’s speech, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon on the moon. Yet when we talk about NASA all people seem to recall are the noted failures of the space agency, and disasters like the Space Shuttles Challenger, Columbia and, more recently the Novak scandal and drunken pilots in space. Has NASA lost its touch? Does NASA no longer have the right stuff as it was so eloquently put in Tom Wolfes book The Right Stuff.
Most recently there have been many new issues and scandal which have come to light , which have rocked the very foundation of the space agency itself. Scandals the likes of the Nowak murder plot, Drunk Astronauts and even sabotage by government contractors. Have caused the nation to loose faith on the famed spaced agency. But these issues are only the top layer of deep and rooted problem. Many of the issues coming to light today are on-going issues of the past. For example during the fiscal year of 2004 NASA had the budget of 15.469 billion dollars, approximately 6.6 billion dollars were requested for the Space Shuttle program and the International Space Station (ISS) and its affiliated research program. Sounds like a lot of money, right?, Take into account the cost of launching a Space Shuttle is about 500 million dollars, add to this expense of the payload, maintenance crew, and after flight activities and it...
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