Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 224 66.1%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 41 12.1%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 74 21.8%
  • Total voters
    339
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CagleMtnVol said:
Why?

The vast majority of launches will be from Cape Canaveral. That's a little over 500 miles from Huntsville compared to the over 1,500 from Cheyenne Mtn./Colorado Springs. That's a lot closer for travel back and fourth by Space Force Command/Personal.
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I don't know, maybe because the infrastructure is already there and we aren't going to spend [waste] billions more on bloated defense contracts to move something that's already established?

Look, Air Force Space Command was headquartered at Peterson AFB since 1983 and they monitored those launches fine for 40+ years. Your argument that they're closer to the Cape doesn't hold water.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Trump said he did this in part because Colorado has mail in voting. You cannot make this nonsense up. Trump said it. Idiot.
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doesn't change the fact that Biden ditched Huntsville - apparently as a shot at Tuberville for his fillibuster and Alabama's general redness.

the analysis said it should be in Huntsville and Biden ignored it for political reasons.
 
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Grand Vol said:
I don't know, maybe because the infrastructure is already there and we aren't going to spend [waste] billions more on bloated defense contracts to move something that's already established?

Look, Air Force Space Command was headquartered at Peterson AFB since 1983 and they monitored those launches fine for 40+ years. Your argument that they're closer to the Cape doesn't hold water.
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Huntsville still has Marshall Spaceflight Center that oversees on orbit operations.
 
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volinbham said:
doesn't change the fact that Biden ditched Huntsville - apparently as a shot at Tuberville for his fillibuster and Alabama's general redness.

the analysis said it should be in Huntsville and Biden ignored it for political reasons.
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See, I disagree here. Where it is/was located is a pretty reliably red stronghold in Colorado. Unfortunately the state has become much like Illinois that Denver controls the state's elections. Anyway...

The big thing I have issues with are the "analysts" that thought moving to Alabama was a good idea. You see, I was at Peterson AFB when they consolidated all the services space forces there and spent billions of dollars to do it. But suddenly it's a good idea to spend billions more on new facilities and uprooting thousands of service members and their families and dropping them into an area that might not be able to support that massive influx? Especially when the infrastructure already exists albeit in a "blue" state?

Which of those analysts are getting rich off construction contracts in Aniston?

This is one of those situations where the Biden Admin made the right call, maybe for the wrong reasons, but the right call because it was going to be cheaper to keep the existing facilities.
 
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