Comments on: Beautiful photos of New NASA vehicles

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:24:46 +0000

Looks cool, but what kind of gas milage does it get?

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:31:37 +0000

oh, you’re right… that makes it even stranger to me!

By: Manda

Manda — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:59:58 +0000

I think you meant 2020, not 2010, for our proposed return to the moon. The first launches to go to the International Space Station won’t be before 2014. (I am a rocket surgeon.)

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:49:35 +0000

I know what you mean, Karen, and I’m actually really interested in space exploration and the inventions that come out of space missions. It just doesn’t seem as exciting that almost 40 years after our first trip to the moon, we’re taking another glorified trip to the moon. You know? With all the discoveries on Mars, and so many other planets to be investigated, this program doesn’t excite me the way it definitely would have 20 years ago. (Of course, I also would have been 9 then!)

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:38:22 +0000

I do not understand why we aren’t more interested in investing in space travel. It isn’t like going to the moon is just a tourist trip.

Space travel pushes US technology which keeps us number one in new products for all of us. It is the cheapist R & D. It also excites the imagination and expands our knowledge of our world and how it works.

I think it is vital and we ought to fund it properly.

By: adrienne

adrienne — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:41:09 +0000

I love NASA. Unfortunately I’m not a rocket surgeon, so I can’t get a job there.