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FireoftheStorm
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06 Jan 2013, 12:43 pm
Okay, has anyone seen this article?
NASA Puts Shuttle Facilities on Auction Block
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413891,00.asp
A) What would your idea for using this stuff be if you could afford it? (Note, this is why the article is in the Technology/Science forum)
B) How to start a fund raiser to bid for some of this stuff? (I'm not rich, and doubt most of us are rich, but if a march on wall street could be organized, and several billion dollars a year go into foreign aid, surely we can come up with something) 
C) Beyond what the article states, does anyone know what is offered in bidding? Or how to make an offer?
Beyond that, this is a sad event - NASA has been just about the only thing I liked about the government. 
06 Jan 2013, 1:06 pm
06 Jan 2013, 4:14 pm
FireoftheStorm
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06 Jan 2013, 7:06 pm
06 Jan 2013, 8:12 pm
06 Jan 2013, 8:19 pm
FireoftheStorm wrote:
Okay, has anyone seen this article?
NASA Puts Shuttle Facilities on Auction Block
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413891,00.asp
A) What would your idea for using this stuff be if you could afford it? (Note, this is why the article is in the Technology/Science forum)
B) How to start a fund raiser to bid for some of this stuff? (I'm not rich, and doubt most of us are rich, but if a march on wall street could be organized, and several billion dollars a year go into foreign aid, surely we can come up with something)
C) Beyond what the article states, does anyone know what is offered in bidding? Or how to make an offer?
Beyond that, this is a sad event - NASA has been just about the only thing I liked about the government.
NASA Puts Shuttle Facilities on Auction Block
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413891,00.asp
A) What would your idea for using this stuff be if you could afford it? (Note, this is why the article is in the Technology/Science forum)
B) How to start a fund raiser to bid for some of this stuff? (I'm not rich, and doubt most of us are rich, but if a march on wall street could be organized, and several billion dollars a year go into foreign aid, surely we can come up with something)
C) Beyond what the article states, does anyone know what is offered in bidding? Or how to make an offer?
Beyond that, this is a sad event - NASA has been just about the only thing I liked about the government.
It would be a good facility for launching private industry built vehicles.
In effect it would be a subsidy to a private industry builder of launch vehicles.
ruveyn
06 Jan 2013, 8:39 pm
06 Jan 2013, 9:16 pm
ruveyn wrote:
FireoftheStorm wrote:
Okay, has anyone seen this article?
NASA Puts Shuttle Facilities on Auction Block
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413891,00.asp
A) What would your idea for using this stuff be if you could afford it? (Note, this is why the article is in the Technology/Science forum)
B) How to start a fund raiser to bid for some of this stuff? (I'm not rich, and doubt most of us are rich, but if a march on wall street could be organized, and several billion dollars a year go into foreign aid, surely we can come up with something)
C) Beyond what the article states, does anyone know what is offered in bidding? Or how to make an offer?
Beyond that, this is a sad event - NASA has been just about the only thing I liked about the government.
NASA Puts Shuttle Facilities on Auction Block
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413891,00.asp
A) What would your idea for using this stuff be if you could afford it? (Note, this is why the article is in the Technology/Science forum)
B) How to start a fund raiser to bid for some of this stuff? (I'm not rich, and doubt most of us are rich, but if a march on wall street could be organized, and several billion dollars a year go into foreign aid, surely we can come up with something)
C) Beyond what the article states, does anyone know what is offered in bidding? Or how to make an offer?
Beyond that, this is a sad event - NASA has been just about the only thing I liked about the government.
It would be a good facility for launching private industry built vehicles.
In effect it would be a subsidy to a private industry builder of launch vehicles.
ruveyn
Correct. Private space firms will likely purchase the facility.
07 Jan 2013, 1:46 am
BlueAbyss wrote:
That doesn't mean they're selling everything, and the space program has NOT been abandoned!
It means they're selling off outdated equipment (first used in 1981) that's no longer needed. The shuttle program is no longer active. It is to be replaced by newer technology.
I'm glad to know they don't plan to let that stuff rust if it can be used for other purposes, and that they can recoup some of the tax dollars spent on it.
They're working on Orion now and proposing a 2014 test flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html
It means they're selling off outdated equipment (first used in 1981) that's no longer needed. The shuttle program is no longer active. It is to be replaced by newer technology.
I'm glad to know they don't plan to let that stuff rust if it can be used for other purposes, and that they can recoup some of the tax dollars spent on it.
They're working on Orion now and proposing a 2014 test flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html
The shuttle program was a step down from the Apollo missions, and even if Orion ever happens, it won't be doing anything new. We squandered the brain trust we had in the 70s and 80s. We're stuck here on earth now.
07 Jan 2013, 4:58 pm
Evinceo wrote:
BlueAbyss wrote:
That doesn't mean they're selling everything, and the space program has NOT been abandoned!
It means they're selling off outdated equipment (first used in 1981) that's no longer needed. The shuttle program is no longer active. It is to be replaced by newer technology.
I'm glad to know they don't plan to let that stuff rust if it can be used for other purposes, and that they can recoup some of the tax dollars spent on it.
They're working on Orion now and proposing a 2014 test flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html
It means they're selling off outdated equipment (first used in 1981) that's no longer needed. The shuttle program is no longer active. It is to be replaced by newer technology.
I'm glad to know they don't plan to let that stuff rust if it can be used for other purposes, and that they can recoup some of the tax dollars spent on it.
They're working on Orion now and proposing a 2014 test flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html
The shuttle program was a step down from the Apollo missions, and even if Orion ever happens, it won't be doing anything new. We squandered the brain trust we had in the 70s and 80s. We're stuck here on earth now.
07 Jan 2013, 6:47 pm
09 Jan 2013, 12:01 pm
Evinceo wrote:
BlueAbyss wrote:
That doesn't mean they're selling everything, and the space program has NOT been abandoned!
It means they're selling off outdated equipment (first used in 1981) that's no longer needed. The shuttle program is no longer active. It is to be replaced by newer technology.
I'm glad to know they don't plan to let that stuff rust if it can be used for other purposes, and that they can recoup some of the tax dollars spent on it.
They're working on Orion now and proposing a 2014 test flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html
It means they're selling off outdated equipment (first used in 1981) that's no longer needed. The shuttle program is no longer active. It is to be replaced by newer technology.
I'm glad to know they don't plan to let that stuff rust if it can be used for other purposes, and that they can recoup some of the tax dollars spent on it.
They're working on Orion now and proposing a 2014 test flight.
http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/mpcv/index.html
The shuttle program was a step down from the Apollo missions, and even if Orion ever happens, it won't be doing anything new. We squandered the brain trust we had in the 70s and 80s. We're stuck here on earth now.
The Apollo Program was part of a pi**ing contest we were having with the Soviet Union back in the 60s and 70s. Once we put a man on the Moon, the contest was over. We won. The U.S. has bigger balls and a longer dong than the Soviet Union.
Or does it? Right now we are using Soviet junk as a taxi between the ground and the ISS (better know as Alpha Sh*t Can One).
ruveyn
