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Space & science NASA is grounded! | NASA is grounded! |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Wednesday, 03 February 2010 | |
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Bard of progress, whose presidency was focused around the development of modern, including space technology, was brutally brought back to Earth. Astronomical budget hole, which is the result of the ongoing economic crisis and the U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan has forced the government to revise the original plans to increase spending on science. Savings do not miss NASA.
Yet announced by George Bush Junior's plan to return to the moon by 2020 there will be no effect. NASA experts estimated that would achieve this goal each year, the need for additional 3 billion U.S. dollars over budget Space Agency. Companies engaged in the construction of rocket, Ares and Orion moon ship - a plan to return to core Silver Globe will be forced to resign. Been issued for this purpose 6 billion U.S. dollars can be thrown in the mud. Piaru specialists have a very strong to sell to the public are uninteresting news. Involved in this to astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man who ever stood on the moon notes that "the truth is that we were on the moon - about 40 years ago" and that it makes no sense to repeat that feat. As you can see the memory of politicians do not reach too far, because a few weeks ago, according to the official version, the re-flight to the moon was supposed to be part of a long-term plan established a space station on our natural satellite, which would stop on the way to Mars. Now, the priorities will have to change. Instead, the station on the moon, Americans want to expand and extend the mission of the International Space Station. Costing nearly 100 billion U.S. dollars station is to be finally completed this year. For this purpose, provided it is another five flights of U.S. space shuttles. During the February mission station will be enriched by another module, and a transparent dome designed for astronomical observations. According to the original design of the station was to serve until 2015, but the new plan provides for an extension of its life to 2020. While one can understand the desire and the longest use of the space laboratory, which created enormous effort means it is difficult to objectively determine what conditions direct those desires. So far, experiments have not yielded the revolutionary discoveries, and each shuttle flight to the station costs about a billion dollars. The new plan provides for replacement of withdrawn vessels already in space shuttle built by private companies. Over the next five years at the cost of 6 billion U.S. dollars NASA is to help build a private space transportation market. Instead of flying on the moon, the new strategy is to focus on the development of technologies that will enable many years in the faster space travel. Researchers are to focus on ion propulsion technology and a network of small "orbital station, which will allow refueling spacecraft in space extraterrestrial theory which has much lower costs. The fuel station is to be delivered by much smaller vessels. "Instead of fixed points and their target dates of flights, we set targets for the technologies that will take us farther, faster and cheaper in space" - said Lori Garver, a member of the administration of NASA. If hopes the project will be fulfilled, the next goal of manned missions to asteroids and to Mars. "Imagine traveling to Mars, which will take weeks instead of an almost year, people traveling on the Inner Solar System, exploring the moon, asteroids and Mars almost at the same time" - says plans for Charles Bolden, an administrator of NASA. Let us hope that the plans do not remain only in the sphere of ideas. Since 1969, when a man stood on the moon conquest of space virtually stopped. Resignation from the tangible and realistic plan for landing on the moon and run a flight to Mars, to create the foundations for private sector space transportation and propulsion technologies is a very dubious procedure propaganda. Rationally speaking, no one calculates the event of sending manned flights, whether on the Moon or Mars, and for decades it will be only a matter of prestige. Deadlock can be broken only in the case when China agreed to accelerate significantly its space program. Maybe then Americans will have sufficient incentive to comply with our dreams of space exploration. |
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