My father was like that with the Moon Landings. He was a dirtbag hippy who never paid a cent of child support and yet he would always come around when I was a kid (1980's) and complain about Reagan this and Reagan that and how "we" are spending too much money and how "we" wasted money to send people up to a "worthless rock" and how people in other countries were never impressed by it.
Finally, my grandfather blew up at him and yelled, "WHO IS THIS "WE" ? YOU HAVE NO JOB AND NEVER PAID ME A CENT OF CHILD SUPPORT. YOU ARE A BUM AND HAVE NO MONEY TO SPEND."
The entire space program was killed by one viral saying. "We have enough problems here on Earth."
I always wanted to say "Bitch, they use different stuff in Space than they do here on Earth. It's not like they are taking a spoonful of cheerios out of your child's mouth and putting it into an astronauts. You see. They don't use spoons in space."
But I was a child, and no one wanted to hear from me.
A manned flyby orbit of the Venus was the planned follow up mission to Apollo. Instead we "settled" for Skylab (Which wasn't bad, BTW). But we could have had much more.
At the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, we were scheduled for a 1980 Mars landing. Then the Ds in congress killed the program and all testing/development on the tech stopped. There are the remains of nuclear rocket engines at Vandenburg (iirc). Now we have to rebuild and retest this shit all over again.
I remember watching a tour of one, I think during the Bush era, and they talked about how it had multiple bedrooms and a conference room. Everything looked so small then thought.
Liberals: "All that for just one man". "Disgraceful". "Look at how many homeless, drug addicted people could sleep in that".
My father was like that with the Moon Landings. He was a dirtbag hippy who never paid a cent of child support and yet he would always come around when I was a kid (1980's) and complain about Reagan this and Reagan that and how "we" are spending too much money and how "we" wasted money to send people up to a "worthless rock" and how people in other countries were never impressed by it.
Finally, my grandfather blew up at him and yelled, "WHO IS THIS "WE" ? YOU HAVE NO JOB AND NEVER PAID ME A CENT OF CHILD SUPPORT. YOU ARE A BUM AND HAVE NO MONEY TO SPEND."
Great childhood, lol.
I remember the times.
The entire space program was killed by one viral saying. "We have enough problems here on Earth."
I always wanted to say "Bitch, they use different stuff in Space than they do here on Earth. It's not like they are taking a spoonful of cheerios out of your child's mouth and putting it into an astronauts. You see. They don't use spoons in space."
But I was a child, and no one wanted to hear from me.
A manned flyby orbit of the Venus was the planned follow up mission to Apollo. Instead we "settled" for Skylab (Which wasn't bad, BTW). But we could have had much more.
An economy the size of Germany had plans to land and return from Mars by 1999.
The USA had 25 times the size of Germany's economy at the time.
And we only got 1 NASA.
We should have gotten 25 NASA's.
Just pair up the richest and poorest states.
Result: diversity of infrastructure, and competition
My own conclusion: "Our current banking system is not capable of sustaining a space program."
At the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, we were scheduled for a 1980 Mars landing. Then the Ds in congress killed the program and all testing/development on the tech stopped. There are the remains of nuclear rocket engines at Vandenburg (iirc). Now we have to rebuild and retest this shit all over again.
God I can hardly imagine how cool it would have been if there were men on Mars in the '80s
I am sorry to hear that. If you are ever in town lets go get a beer. Did you see my latest video?
Hey man, did you get a new shirt ? I chipped in a 20 spot on go fund me.
and thankyou.
I bought some more Trump gear. Shirts and hats and flags.
Hope the Boss gets to ride in the new AF1 747-8 coming in a few years - if only for that last official trip down to WPB.
I'm sure Jr. will let him fly on it during his administration.
Kek 👊🍊
Well they don’t call the 747 the “queen of the skies” for no reason. Largest passenger aircraft for over 40 years.
Ground crews call it “The Big Bitch”
Air Force One - Practice Take off and Landing (Take off)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v635zD1tuQ
Amazing.
If you think this one is big (and it is - about 230 feet long), wait until the new one comes online (about 250 feet long).
That extra 20 feet might not seem like much, but it is. They needed the extra room for President Trump's balls.
YUGE
Can’t wait to see the new one he’s ordered!
I'd like to see the long form girth certificate.
Still not enough headroom for Barron.
Impressive length!
Dang.
I remember watching a tour of one, I think during the Bush era, and they talked about how it had multiple bedrooms and a conference room. Everything looked so small then thought.
Trump says it’s jammed full of TVs.
Playing the gorilla channel obviously. -cnn