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Thank you Gentlemen.
When you read posts like this:
"The men who rolled up their starched white shirts at Johnson and the Cape every day for years, staying up late designing things had abilities and talents that simply do not exist in NASA anymore. They had intuition, experience, skills, and lots of hard core flight time under their belts, and they ate breathed and slept Apollo.
We don't have that anymore. When the best that NASA can do is less than .500 in intact probes, all of which ran over budget, over time, and under design requirements..."
....knowing that thirteen of the best and brightest are up there as this is written making real and concrete scientific advances...
...well you've gotta wonder sbout some of these posters and if they listen to anything other than NPR or CNN. There's absolutely no sense of history or perspective (how many of the original astronauts had "hard core flight time" and why would that be an essential requirement for a mission specialist?) and no knowledge of the present (Paz- try googling "Kobi" and tell us how someone built that thing and got it up there without using ability, talent, intuition and skill).
I honestly think we could be back there in five years or less if we wanted to. But that would take leadership, inspiration and national will. That's lacking in Washington, DC, not Houston, Huntsville or Florida.
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