NASA's Lunar Lunacy Looses Liftoff Capacity

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Everything Bush touches turns into turds. NASA is falling apart under his dire leadership. The moon mission is rapidly turning into lunacy and the men on Mars is morphing into nuking Iran to stop nukes. Meanwhile, Putin thinks about a vacation at the space station.

Space Daily:

by Jeffrey F. Bell
Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 12, 2006
Another space news website has published a leaked NASA study called "LRA-0" which is spreading despair and gloom through the space community. Many people are surprised that the architecture for returning men to the Moon laid out in the famous ESAS report is declared to be totally unworkable in this new document.
But no one should be surprised. I pointed this out four months ago, and anyone who has followed the announced and rumored changes to the ESAS plan since its appearance could see that it was in serious trouble.

The 723-page ESAS report went to elaborate lengths to justify its particular choices of spacecraft, boosters, engines, and fuels. Many of these justifications were obviously phony. (My favorite was a long table of expensive modifications that would supposedly be needed to "man-rate" the Delta-4H or Atlas-5H.)

It was clear to many astute observers that the ESAS program was a political one. It was designed to mollify Congress by keeping almost every worker in the dying Space Shuttle program in his present job, performing the same task in the same factory in the same politician's district.

Bush is monumentally unlucky. This is why the space shuttle blew up as if flew over Texas. Since he claims he prays to God all the time, this is God's way of communicating to him, "If you were Noah, no one would be alive today because even I can't keep your ship afloat." Anyway, many of the "Mars or Mom's Basement" crew thought this idiot would send America into space and beyond. But being empty space between the ears, he simply set them off on the wrong road because frankly, my dear Mars mavens, Bush doesn't care if you all drown or get blown up by aliens. He doesn't give a hoot. Never did.

Bush does love his nukes. This is why he is lusting over setting off a zillion nukes in Iran, any chance to nuke someone is like stuffing frogs with firecrackers and laughing.

The NASA study for launching a series of flights using reusable Shuttle tanks has tanked. It was pretty retro to begin with. I made fun of their earlier plans which looked like a giant syringe. Now, probably inspired by someone's filter tipped cigarette, they have a new, even stupider looking design. And that isn't feasible, either, so they are going whizbanging back to the Apollo designs. Whoopee.

The Space Shuttle should have been used for lower L orbital work like saving the Space Telescope! But alas, this isn't happening. What has been happening is lots of accidents. After I blogged about them, a worker even died at the Shuttle shelter, fell off the roof. One thing after another, one wonders about what Gods are twisting which threads while weaving man's fates. Someone upstairs has a definite dislike for Bush.

And we want to launch a nuclear war? Putin, in between running around the planet, making secret deals behind our backs while pretending to be angry at the spread of nukes, is planning to go fly into space. I wish Bush would, too, to Mars. One way. I know a lot of people who would be happy to bankroll this. Maybe we can raise funds for it in Iran?

This change would be a poison pill for the program, because then it really would be little different from Apollo. Critics who have derided the LSAS plan as "Apollo Redo" or "Back to the Future" would be vindicated. Political support would vanish overnight. What would be the point of repeating a project we already did 50 years before?

I hope any lurking NASA readers who make fun of me and this blog lurk here today. Because I am one of the "Back to the Future" mockers and I knew what I was talking about, having grown up in the space community from the very start, back in the stone ages. I remember rockets blowing up before lifting more than a few dozen feet! Whee! And I know Congress and I know Presidents and Bush is by far and away, the stupidest, most irritatingly nauseating creature to ever rule a country since Henry the VI or the Merogivinian barbarians or Caligula.

He divides America and is bad luck. The GOP exists to only milk the taxpayers in China, no one is responsible for any "visionary" things except to start nuclear wars for Israel. Which is why we are doomed. If we could only ship these lunatics to their home planet, somewhere where there is no oxygen and no one worries about global warming.

Sic Transit NASA.

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Comments

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Agreed. As Yogi Berra said: "The future ain't what it used to be".
I grew up in the 60's and it was so exciting to watch the space missions. I never dreamed of us descending into such a dystopian world. Oh well.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

We are coming up against physical limitations. To think our way around them requires a large class of seemingly idle thinkers who come up with solutions (after reading lots of SF books! Heh!). Right now, it is a bare bones operation with little brains at the very apex, compare Kennedy to Bush! Gah.

One could actually read and write, just for starters.