This Week In Space - SPECIAL REPORT - Feb 3, 2010 - Part 1

Obama charts a new course for NASA that pumps billions into the commercial sector while ending plans to return to the Moon. We'll hear the details from NASA's Lori Garver, talk politics with Florida Senator Bill Nelson, check in with the Augustine Commission's Leroy Chiao, debate rocket safety with commercial space supporters and Constellation's Old Guard, and hear the musings of Buzz Aldrin.

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Science & Technology

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• This Week In Space
• Miles O'Brien
• Constellation cancelled
• NASA
• moon program
• Lori Garver
• Senator Bill Nelson
• Augustine Commisson
• astronaut Leroy Chiao
• Doc Horowitz
• Buzz Aldrin

[hugofandango]

The Universe is Billions of years old. Massive balls of Hydrogen burn up in the vacuum of space with gaseous or rocky balls of mass orbiting them. Star nurseries or Nebula can be light years in size. We are all shooting through space at huge speeds. After all that, why is it so hard to believe that after years or experiments and testing, that we strapped a rocket to a ship and went to the moon? Existing at all is completely ridicules. non believers try your best to evolve before it’s too late.

[hugofandango]

Russia, at that time was America’s big rivals. In nuclear armament and in the Space race. Russia beat America in many of the first stages. My point is, when America got there first, Russia knew America had done it. With all the political spin and propaganda available, Russia NEVER once said that the moon landing were fake. If America’s cold war space race rivals can accept it that you should try and accept it too.

[NASAHUB]

Yeah - and I guess you also believe that those weren't commercial airliners that flew into the WTC and the Pentagon on 9/11. UFB!

[Cosmored]

The evidence that the Apollo moon missions were faked is crushing. To see a partial summary of the evidence, google "The Naked Scientists". In the "New Theories" section of the forum there's a thread entitled "Did We Go to the Moon?". The summary is on page 15. It's the 7th post from the top.

Also, do a YouTube search on "MarsFaker".

[EGMAG]

they just found out they can't ever get to the moon without 6 feet of lead shielding.

[michaelstmark]

Can't go won't go, expenditure cutbacks the excuse!

Next thing Obama will do a Kennedy and declare to put a man on Mars & return by the end of this decade. Big talk !

Flying pigs over the White House more likely than today's "jam tomorrow" politicians' empty words ever materialising. At least Obama's half honest over Constellation programme.

[obaeyens]

Remember all the promises about what the shuttle could do back then? And remember what the shuttle actually did?

Tons of promises but too many If's.

How many years did it take between the last moon landing and the first astronaut sent in space again?

History is repeating itself.