China Understands and We're Clueless

It wasn't but a week ago that I said, by killing our moon program, the Obama Administration was missing an inexpensive opportunity to prove to the world that we are the true leader in high technology.

As of this morning, this viewpoint was substantiated, in an indirect way, by this news article: "China says will push space programme to catch West".

From that article, I need only point to this quote from China's Vice Minister Of Science and Technology, Li Xueyong, to further my opinion:

"I believe a space programme represents a country's high technology and I believe China has already become a major country in high technology...Our success shows not only the progress of the space programme but also our overall level of science and technology..."

A Successful $8 Billion In Wasted Money

Just three days ago, Obama's 'space-team' decide that it would be just too expensive for America to entertain any more space shots to the moon (Click to See Full Story: "Obama space panel says moon return plan is a no-go"). This, of course, is after we've dumped $7 billion dollars in, what I guess was just play-money, doing what the Congress had already agreed to. The Obama team seems to think that going to the moon would be just too expensive at a cost of $3 billion per year. However, about that same amount of money was spent in just 3 weeks for the Cash For Clunkers program.

Yesterday, the Ares I rocket engine that would take our Astronauts to the moon was successfully 'bench tested' at ATK's Utah test range:



Sadly, now, it seems like that successful test was just a waste of another $8 billion in taxpayer money.

I just think that going to the moon is a cheap deal compared to all the wasted money on some very silly projects that are in the Obama Stimulus Plan. Obama is literally spending trillions and, somehow, is worried about the figurative pennies being spent to give America some technological stature in the world. Going to the moon helps all our high tech company's sell their products in the world because it shows that we are truly great at technology. A moon shot would be cheap advertising at twice the price. I guarantee you that either China, India, or the European Space Agency will put humans back on the moon before we ever do it again.