Florida Space Day

This appears to be a wonderful event. It kinda like a wake for the dead! LOL

to notconfused

Have you ever been inside the VAB or seen a rollout or watched a launch ? These hardworking men and women that you are laughing at move hazardous multi-ton loads with the care and precision of handling eggshells. They work in all kinds of weather at all hours of the day and night. If their skills are lost it will be a huge loss for the US. And you laugh ?

One thing I can assure you all out there "is" that the people who work at those centers around the nation that are supporting man space flight are the most dynamic, dedicated and skilled work force you will ever encounter. From the people who pickup the office trash, those in the cafeteria and all the way to the Doctoral Degree scientist, they will never bow down their heads to ill fated policies or politics.

Dedication in the light of uncertainty is exactly what these people are about and beyond anything this nation will ever have in the future and those men and women keep on testing and processing the Space Shuttle with the up most care, concentration no matter how financially troubling the future holds. They are one team united in the spirit of man kind ambition for discovery and maintaining hope for our nation's children future to be the leading nation in science and technology.

Poke fun, riddle, and belittle all you want but, it is my humble opinion that the facts are clear....at the end of the day and if man space flight does end as we know it today, this nation will never assemble anything like what you have today and no one will ever trust any Governmental agency ever again to join for any thing remotely like what this nation has today. I am not talking about jobs but, the constant "mission" policy shift chances.

Enough said!

First of all, it was president Bush who wisely cancelled the shuttle, before it wore out. Even if Constellation were continued, I doubt that many workers would be required during the 'gap'.
This is the lot of the aerospace worker, if you helped put a man on the moon, you were fired in the 70's If you helped win the cold war, you were fired in the 80's. If you worked on the shuttle, you got a pretty long career, compared to the others.
You can blame Obama if you want to, that is probably what Bush intended when he decided the last shuttle flight would be on someone else's watch.
But anyone who watches NASA politics closely could have seen this coming, the shuttle couldn't last forever, and the Orion was going to be late.

Have you ever been inside the VAB or seen a rollout or watched a launch ?

Ahhh Ya
in every KSC building you can think of. I have been in FR1 for STS launches many times.

You folks at KSC can get work, you just need to get working on it. Do not rely on "it cannot only be done here" thinking.

have a good day!