            Comments     Threshold   RE: Huh? By ViroMan on
7/12/2008 3:27:37 AM , Rating: 2 While all that you say is
true... you forget that we still beat the Russians to the moon.
THAT was our first goal, all the other things were mere mile
stones that the Russians had beat us to. Sure we really wanted
to have beaten them to those mile stones as well but in the end
we still won.  Think of it as literally a race. They get off the
starting line first... make it around the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
turns first. Then they get run over as we poured in the speed at
the last bit of the way. Do we still say they should get the
award, no but, they get recognized in some way as in 2nd place
Silver.  I also totally agree that we have a strangle hold on
NASAs neck. Stuff costs more to make and test today what with
inflation and not to mention we are A LOT more safety oriented
then we were back then. Developing new stuff to use takes 3-4
times longer with NASA then any other industrial skunk works or
even the military. Things