Is this written from a time capsule? It reads like something from the 1960s. Oh, I get it, it's election season and so the Dems need to get every stereotype and hatred going they can here on Democrat Party owned Gawker and its sites. The Haters are out creating hate in full force. Nothing like a graphic of one person…

Noncollege jobs have been better for a long time. And they have plenty of dignity. Plumber, electrician, carpenter, mason etc make great money and have more independence than most college jobs. It is the media presentation of non college jobs as menial that is the issue for those who care about hype, and that includes…

Noncollege jobs have been better for a long time. And they have plenty of dignity. Plumber, electrician, carpenter, mason etc make great money and have more independence than most college jobs. It is the media presentation of non college jobs as menial that is the issue for those who care about hype, and that includes…

Really Jezebel, you of all sites want to look down your nose on the Mail?Hardly.

My issue is the negative biography contributes to our current malaise where so many believe great things are not possible and they want some magical government to take care of them. Aliens did not build the pyramids or invent the night bulb or write Romeo and Juliet. Real people!le with faults did those but their…

Be careful about contemporary biography. Current academia is in an era where destroying the reputation and exaggerating every fault is the norm. It's one thing to humanize and show flaws but biographers today are just out to convince us all past greats were just frauds.Well, what is more likely- that Churchill and…

I agree the issue is 'mission statement". NASA has come to see man-in -space as a distraction from "big Science' probes and astronomy. Those are interesting but that is not what NASA was originally created for. Thank goodness Branson/Virgin and others are bringing capitalism and private sector development to near…

OK, then why have people in the capsule at all? I want manned space development. I see putting people in space as the whole point . NASA does not- that is my whole point.

He happens to be named because he is the sitting president of the USA. I did not mention the head of the EU as no one knows who that is-not even if you are European.

No, no this is not true. Making up stuff as a 'performance artist' is not research . This sort of detritus is insulting to the people with autism and the actual researchers who study the illness.

Orion is so small that it again shows NASA is not serious about manned space missions. NASA treats 'people' as components that fit in a space instead of humans that will move around and do tasks. The capsule illustrates that nasa sees the crew as just cargo...and actually as superfluous cargo nasa wishes it did not…

You consider the Japanese and the EU..you do know what the EU is, right... as historical cultures?

We are very far from being able to send humans on a months long space mission due to all the tech issues of radiation and human zero grav deteriation. But we have the tech to establish a moon base now. I read where the moon dust issue has turned out to be a doable fix by adding a micro-charge to suits and the airlock.…

Oh I agree that the ISS is a station to nowhere. It was built with no real mission and actually just duplicates research that was done 20 years ago in Skylab and the Soviet stations. We are in a loop in space tech- redoing what we have already done instead of moving to the next stage of actual useful work in space.…

Wow, if you read above I mentioned that we have wasted much money on wars. See, you made up viewpoints I never expressed and then someone even starred your fantasies of what I believe. By the way, Obama I president and has been for 6 years. Any money we are spending on war is being spent by OBAMA. I am in favor of…

If you think having no human to space capability is ok, then you agree with NASA. That is my point- we are in this spot because the priority has been to see manned space capability as not important. I disagree and I see manned space travel as important.

I read a great deal of history and the story over and over is the story of government growing , becoming more powerful than the people and then at best wasting all the money . But ,sadly, what usually is the story is that as govt becomes bigger, govt begins to see the people as a tool to serve the government and the…

NASA has a budget of 16.5$ and spent around 2 billion on the current Mars probe mission-or around 12% of their total annual budget. So, yes, I not only have a 'clue' ,I actually look up the numbers. Space Shuttle Endeavor -the replacement for Challenger- cost 1.7 $ to build. So, silly laughter on your part does not…

We are seeing private space companies building amazing tech for relatively tiny budgets while the govt spends almost a billion on a website. That is government.

NASA publicly admitted that because the ISS could not be reached by a standard shuttle, the Challenger could not use it and was doomed. If NASA had manned missions as priority, the ISS would be a real space station and available to Challenger. For the cost of the Mars probes- which is NASA's money appropriated by…