NASA is quite pleased that Boeing is finally going to launch a manned (the PC crowd says “crewed” – and that’s crude if you ask me). Anyway, May 6, 2024 is the tentative day that finally Boeing will begin to compete with SpaceX for sending men and material (and a female or two – but not even our new Supreme court justice can define a woman, so I won’t even try) to the ISS.
A wise commenter on Yahoo – even though his fake name seems to indicate he’s a GOP hating lefty – where I saw the announcement, said the following:
“interesting but going back to space capsules seems like a step backwards from the space shuttles. The capsules can carry what – a couple of people and some supplies? The space shuttles had a cargo compartment the size of a railroad car…. Seems to me the best course would have been to improve and update the shuttles.”
SpaceX Dragon’s payload capacity is over 6 tons to the International Space Station – and 2 tons back to earth. The Shuttle – had about an 18 ton payload. If the idea is to move stuff back and forth from the Space Station, it doesn’t seem that ending the Shuttle program was that great an idea. (Don’t get me wrong I think SpaceX’s long term project for reusable much larger rockets will actually be a winner if the politicians don’t scuttle it now that Elon bought birdie X).
But, Yes, Obama squashing the Shuttle program is another great idea from the same Community Organizer friend of Marxists and devotee of Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals (the new Left’s bible) that gave us that fundamental transformation from American “know how” to more never ending wars, massive debt and out of control pork spending, and let’s not forget the most punitive tax to most hardworking Americans – inflation – an absolute “transformation” that he could never have dreamed of (when he was POTUS) – now that his puppets are in complete control. Of course, they are afraid of Trump – why he might fix the border, end the wars, fix the economy, put Iran and China back in their respective boxes. But alas, as evidenced by the rampant anti-Semitism on College Campuses and the out of control power of unelected bureaucrats, foreign big money coming from the Muslim Middle East and Communist Chinese, and the politicians of both parties they’ve purchased – I don’t think Trump can put this Humpty Dumpty country back together again. So, if you sympathize with the one party Tyrannical Regime in control – not to worry. I see the day when English will no longer be the most used language in America; Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese and Ebonics will be vying for most spoken although I’m not sure if it matters much to the Ruling Class. The only language they speak is raw power in any any tongue Google can translate.