2014: Routine launch to LOE explodes seconds into flight.

2014: Sub-orbital spacecraft crashes and kills a pilot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27858929)

Nasa was also preparing venus and mars missions and could have safely done them blindfolded.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27859129)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27860446)

It's heartbreaking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27860461)

"Too ekthpenthive" they always lisp.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#28018941)

Without the urgency brought by the threat of global conflict, NASA is little more than a government-funded research venture on par with other scientific programs, excepting projects of interest to the military (granted, of which there are many).

I don’t mean to suggest that the state should or should not be more interested in the space program – but, rather, that the blame for its decline does not fall on one individual or regime. JFK would have similarly allowed it to flounder were it not for the fact that political necessity required that he do otherwise. Absent political urgency, space exploration – as with any scientific research of potential interest to the state – is left to the wayside by the government – as it has been by every regime since JFK.

As an aside, it will be interesting to observe whether the rise of China reignites the state’s interest in spaceflight. Global political tension is of course not desirable in itself, but, as in any market, monopolies on international power discourage advancements otherwise wrought by competition. In an era in which mutually-assured destruction perhaps shields us from the dangers of total war amongst global powers, we may be in a position to reap the technological and cultural benefits of international rivalry while shielded from the existential threat of global annihilation. State-sponsored scientific research has been lacking since the decline of the US’s last serious geopolitical rival. Perhaps it will be revived with the emergence of new competition.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#28340946)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27859734)

Enough said.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27859748)

“In time, the Navy would compile statistics showing that for a career Navy pilot, i.e., one who intended to keep flying for twenty years... there was a 23 percent probability that he would die in an aircraft accident. This did not even include combat deaths, since the military did not classify death in combat as accidental.”

― Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27860327)

No fault of the spacecraft's design or operating procedure.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#27860610)

2015: 3 rockets fail within 8 months on way to low earth orbit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#28340712)

2016: Rocket fails while simply getting fueled on the launch pad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#32802807)

for example: one could credibly believe that great men founded a nation by sailing to the distant shores of america, braved attacks by native americans, committed the original sin of slavery, which was later corrected through a tumultuous period culminating in the landing of a man on the moon, after which society steadily declined through the dissolution of culture until rockets fell into disrepair and periodically exploded just trying to reach the upper atmosphere

however: one could also credibly believe the reverse, which is that the early prototypes of a corporate spaceship company experienced early failures, but laid the foundations for a journey to the moon; despite these technological achievements, the cultural tumult of the era caused egregious measures to be put into law such as segregation, ultimately devolving into slavery, after which america fell into ruins and the survivors then fled indians and sailed for the U.K.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#32802886)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk8vILOaLpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#36363109)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2876314&forum_id=2#36361405)