Comments on: NASA Considers Shuttle Launch "As Is"

Sensor Malfunction Cause Still Unknown; Earliest Next Launch Would Be Saturday

[godofredo29]

They should try even launching the shuttle from the rolling platform just for the heck of it. If that works it would mean they could launch it from other places--people''s backyards, a football stadium, an aircraft carrier. Who knows?

[offtheback]

MichaelT302
Cursing and throwing insults under cover of the anonimity of the internet. You would not speek that way to someones face least they lay you out as with any mouthy punk. I am not a liberal, not a dem. or rep. I am however a conservitive. A true fiscal con. I don''t believe in spending money you don''t have on things you don''t need. There is a reason these things are mutually exclusive and you have bought into it hook line and sinker. That is polititions of any label. The idea here is to divide the people along any lines that present themselves to continue the childish bickering and divert attention from the sale of our great nation to the highest bidder. Try engaging in an intellegent debate sometime and you might find that our views and priorities are not all that different.

[jackie0428]

If you want the truth: for every dollar spent on the space program, approx. 7(seven) dollars is returned to our economy in either direct dollar benefits, jobs, or scientific advances and benefits. You''ll likely find no other program that can boast of such a positive record. Our only mistake is that we don''t spend nearly ENOUGH money on NASA. I''d like to see us go to Mars as soon as possible. We%u2019d need another JFK-style push to do it. Sadly, liberals, the scientifically-illiterate, and mentally lazy people, all lacking the ability to pull their brains away from watching "Dancing with the Stars" or "The View", and unable to see further than 3 months into the future, are creating the apathy about our space program.

[rushman71]

alphaa10: I''ll repeat what Demslie said,"No matter what the story, there are angry democrats screaming about something."

[fstop100]

taxpayers money going up in smoke. how much money does nasa burn every year? even the guy greasing the tracks on the shuttle mover is making way too much money

[michaelt302]

Downtowner97, you''re 100% wrong and made ALL of your stats up. I have studied the space program non-stop for 40 years, and you sir are full of sh*it.

[michaelt302]

OffTheBack, you liberal whining bag of dogsh*it, just shut the fu*ck up. There is NO reason our country cannot afford BOTH a space program and to give reasonable help to poor kids. We need to do both; these are NOT mutually exclusive programs. Just so long as a cent doesn''t go to YOUR worthless whiny a*ss, I''m all for it.

[yongamerica]

and saved jet fuel to boot..Posted by BareEmperor

The space shuttle uses less jet fuel than a Boeing 787 does traveling between Chicago to New York.
:)

[offtheback]

Cool, another multi billion dollar fireworks show. I''ll be sure to tune in. All the while children die for lack of reasonable medical care and seniors still have to decide between blood pressure medicine to stay alive or food to stay alive. What a great regiem we worship.

[andor3]

"There are no new discoveries being made. The shuttle costs 30 times as much as a Russian rocket to launch, and is over a hundred times more likely to blow up."

Okay those statements are all 100% wrong. If you are going to make up science and fabricate facts, you oughta try to keep them in the range of believable, despite Bush&Co example.