New York Times: ”Over the next few years, American astronauts will be competing for a handful of slots on the International Space Station, flying there on Russian Soyuz capsules.”
This situation is the exact OPPOSITE of what I’d like to see for the men and women of our space program. But then again, we seem to live in a time when those in control live in what Nicole Sandler often refers to as “opposite world.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/science/space/24astronaut.html
While they’re perhaps the most prominent of NASA’s employees, the astronauts are really a small fraction of the workers who have put us into space in a real and productive national program. I’m hopeful that the private space industry will be able to ramp up operations as quickly as possible to create “private” employment situations for the thousands of NASA employees who will soon be forced to retire early if they can’t find work in the privatized space industry.
