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Space Forum / Shuttle / July 2004Bush Policies Detrimental To Space Program
NASA has decided to euthanize a highly successful Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, just because they supposedly want to save $28 million to $36 million. This is a good example of how Republicans change the subject when presented with humane opportunities. This satellite provides very useful weather forecasting and research information, especially on tropical storm systems such as hurricanes. According to the article (linked below): "Earth observation budget is shrinking as the agency begins to focus on President Bush's plan for human exploration of the moon and Mars." Can you see thru their shenanigans? I certainly can. Rather than saving the lives of human beings everywhere (thru the improvement of weather analysis and forecasting) Bush instead says he's going to send all our money to Mars. We should save our money and send Bush to Mars! He will waste billions of our tax dollars on a somewhat secretive project that will supposedly result in a Mars missions is about as useful to the average American as building better missiles to send to Baghdad. Granted, spending money in space has economic benefits here on Earth, but what Bush is doing is just throwing our money all away on boondoggle projects (that will in all likelihood end up into the pockets of corrupt corporations that fund Republican campaigns, such as Halliburton). The money wasted on a non-existent/imaginary Mars mission SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE is money that would be much better spent NOW to learn more about our home planet. Terminating this useful and beneficial program is yet another example of the word games played by the Bush administration, their corruption and their harsh/uncaring attitude towards people in general. It's all too obvious to me, but here's the article, read it, and tell me what you think: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/19/MNG LA7NQ471.DTL Abel Malcolm John Kerry...bringing complete sentences back to the White House <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Educate yourself & go to these links: www.moveon.org & www.ndol.org & www.democracynow.org & www.buzzflash.com & www.democrats.org & www.bushwatch.com & www.bopbush.com & www.jibjab.com *follow-ups set to sci.space.policy* <AbelMalcolm@webtv.net> wrote to far too many groups but didn't get sci.space.policy ... > NASA has decided to euthanize a highly successful Tropical Rainfall > Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, just because they supposedly want to > save $28 million to $36 million. > > This is a good example of how Republicans change the subject when > presented with humane opportunities. <big snip> Yadda yadda yadda. Still, I have noted a suspicious (to my mind) lack of interest in satellites related to climate research. It implies to me that Bush is much more afraid that what he suspects is the case will be more thoroughly proved than he is hopeful that scientific evidence will give the 'green card' to industry. > *follow-ups set to sci.space.policy* > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > thoroughly proved than he is hopeful that scientific evidence will give > the 'green card' to industry. It was just a political ad, probably by a plant, not by a real contributor. It seems that Aura, Aqua, Terra, etc., were not scrapped but instead launched, and these were not exactly low-budget projects. The GRACE twins and others that study Earth were also launched and not scrapped. TRIANA on the other hand ... I don't recall the planned mission life for TRMM but believe it went well past that. Has moveon.org (first organization listed in the planted article) contributed any of their $ to keeping this valuable program alive as opposed to whatever they spend their money on?  Signaturerk, Just an OldEngineer "Dealing properly with very rare events is one of the attributes that distinguishes a design that is fit for safety-critical systems from one that is not." -- John Rushby in "A Comparison of Bus Architectures for Safety- Critical Embedded Systems," March 2003 > <AbelMalcolm@webtv.net> wrote to far too many groups but didn't get sci.space.policy ... > > NASA has decided to euthanize a highly successful Tropical Rainfall [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > than he is hopeful that scientific evidence will give the 'green card' to > industry. Even bigger yadda...who's going to take the gas can up to TRRM to replenish the fuel tanks? It already has served a multi-year extension of its original mission. This *was* mentioned in the press release.... /dps > NASA has decided to euthanize a highly successful Tropical Rainfall > Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, just because they supposedly want to > save $28 million to $36 million. > > This is a good example of how Republicans change the subject when > presented with humane opportunities. It was put on orbit in 1997 to operate for at least three years. It is now 2004. > This satellite provides very useful weather forecasting and research > information, especially on tropical storm systems such as hurricanes. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > weather analysis and forecasting) Bush instead says he's going to send > all our money to Mars. We should save our money and send Bush to Mars! Maybe Earth observation can be done by someone else. Why not have the Japanese or the Russians or the rich Europeans start stepping up to the plate to do these things more? As long as the US will pay for it and give it away free, they have no incentive. > He will waste billions of our tax dollars on a somewhat secretive > project that will supposedly result in a Mars missions is about as > useful to the average American as building better missiles to send to > Baghdad. Bush wants a new large man rated ELV. That is useful for all sorts of activities and because it is ELV and will have so many uses, it will have an assembly line that remains open. > Granted, spending money in space has economic benefits here on > Earth, but what Bush is doing is just throwing our money all away on > boondoggle projects (that will in all likelihood end up into the pockets > of corrupt corporations that fund Republican campaigns, such as > Halliburton). Why do you oppose the exploration of Space? Why do you want to go roundy round in LEO forever? > The money wasted on a non-existent/imaginary Mars mission SOMETIME IN > THE FUTURE is money that would be much better spent NOW to learn more > about our home planet. By learning more about the other planets, scientists do learn more about Earth. The ELV Bush wants will be used first to go back to the Moon. That is well within the capabilities and cost constraints on NASA giving a migration away from ISS and STS. SignatureHe and Evie soon fell into a conversation of the "No, I didn't; yes, you did" type--conversation which, though fascinating to those who are engaged in it, neither desires nor deserves the attention of others. -+E.M. Forster, "Howards End" >> NASA has decided to euthanize a highly successful Tropical Rainfall >> Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, just because they supposedly want to [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >It was put on orbit in 1997 to operate for at least three years. It is >now 2004. Now, Bill... you don't want to confuse the man with annoying facts like that. Can't you see he has an axe to grind? Brian >>> NASA has decided to euthanize a highly successful Tropical Rainfall >>> Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, just because they supposedly want to [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Now, Bill... you don't want to confuse the man with annoying facts > like that. Can't you see he has an axe to grind? According to Space News, July 12, 2004, p. 12, TRMM had an 18 month mission and a three year design life. It was an interesting editorial, well worth reading: "Paying for Mission Operations" Signaturerk, Just an OldEngineer "Dealing properly with very rare events is one of the attributes that distinguishes a design that is fit for safety-critical systems from one that is not." -- John Rushby in "A Comparison of Bus Architectures for Safety- Critical Embedded Systems," March 2003 |
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