Why are the Indian and Russian space programmes and Space X so much better than NASA?
>>52001915
because obongo fucked with constellation and the budget
Politics
Um, hello? It's 2015? And we have shit to fix on Earth BEFORE colonizing ANOTHER expanse?
>>52001936
Blame Bush for fucking up the economy.
>>52001947
China is fixing those things.
>>52001915
Landing a crewed space craft on the moon with tech they had at the time i would say is way better then any thing space x will do for a long time
>>52001947
>It's year x and
>>52001950
oh yeah, the economy is so fucked that obama is wasting 1 trillion per year for absolutely nothing
What about the first robot in Mars
>>52001947
>CURRENT YEAR
Okay, Mr. Oliver
>>52002067
>PRESENT DAY
>PRESENT TIME
>HAHAHAHA
>>52001947
IT'S THE CURRENT YEAR
We followed everything they did. Also, long distance crewed craft is extremely more harder then anything Russian, Indian, and space x space programs. There are tons of variables that need to be controlled. They could not even map out where they would land.
>>52001947
Not NASA's job to fix everybody's shit
>>52001950
>says the guy who obviously knows nothing about the economy
If you think any president fucked up the economy you're an idiot. The economy has its highs and lows but will always automatically adjust to its natural position.
>>52001915
Once the Chinese land on the moon the US government will have to give more money to NASA and a new space race will begin, this time to get men on Mars
>>52001915
NASA is focusing on climate science because everyone else refuses to.
>>52002166
then cancelled two years later
>>52002166
They've already landed rovers on the moon
>>52001915
>cassini
>mars rovers
>pioneer & voyager
>juno
>new horizons
>>52001915
>Russian
Okay
>Indian
No
Poo in loo, Pajeet.
>>52002473
Indian scientific spaceflight is a 'hobby' for them.
Their bread and butter is commercial launches for satellites etc. They siphon off some of the profit from this to fund their moon/mars/etc. missions.... which they manage to do for less than what it costs to make a hollywood movie.
It's quite impressive actually, but in a different sort of way.
>won the space race
that always bugged me
they won the "moon race" but they didn't reach space first
What happened to the Chinese space program?
There was so much hype when they launched some guy into space years ago. And then just nothing.
>>52002664
They tried to send a man to the sun at night.
They committed sudoku after the disappointment.
>>52002664
They send space station to orbit, send crew. Now they want to build bigger one.
>>52002238
does money NASA gets really go to climate change research?
>>52001915
Just thought I would drop off some NASA acheivments.
>First Orbiter of Mars
>All succesful Mars Landings
>First Flybys of"
->Jupiter
->Saturn
->Uranus*
->Neptune*
->Mercury
->Pluto*
->Mars
(and associated satellites)
>Hubble - Pretty great space telescope
>Kepler - Discovering Exoplanets galore
>Modern Mars Mapping/High Resolution Photography/Topographic Mapping
>Modern Moon Mapping/High Resolution Photography/Topography Mapping
>Venus Radar Mapping
>Titan Mapping (with ESA)
*-Never revisited
...
By Constrast, SpaceX has flown to LEO a couple times and done some tricks with Rockets. ISRO is far more impressive--they actually made it to somewhere worth going.
>>52003470
Some of it. Not all of it by any measure. NASA is a big entity. Some of that money goes to buying paperclips. Some of it goes to archives. Some to cartography. Et cetera.
>>52002087
But boy could they space station.
You have to give them credit for their Space Stations--those were pretty incredible. Their experience was something that NASA took a long tike to recognize when they partnered up for Shuttle-Mir and later ISS>
>>52001915
Russia has a space program?
>>52001915
>Russian space programmes
Sure you meant USSR? All of current Russian space stuff is mostly based on USSR legacy.
because the us government doesn't like funding science? they rather fuck shit up in the middle east.
We realized the moon was only good for making an endless supply of #2 pencils so we came home.
>>52003541
This tbqh. NASA is still the premier space research agency, the focus has just shifted from manned missions to observation from here on earth.
>>52001915
>first woman in space
Wow so impressive this really needed to be mentioned.
>>52001915
NASA can't get funding because it indirectly relies on public interest and most americans don't give a shit about science of any kind.
