Flags from Apollo moon landing still standing, photos reveal

[RWGR]

It must be so embarrassing after beating Russia in the space race that Americans now have to hitch rides on the Russian Soyuz because they have no other way to get astronauts into space. Was beating them to the moon worth it if a country like the USA runs out of money for their manned space program before a country like Russia does?

We haven't run out of money for the space program. We just landed a rover on Mars today. What did Canada do today? Draw up designs for a new shuttle arm???

We won the space race, and we won the Cold War. You watched, in envy.

We rock!!!!!

[hobo]

Canada footed $17.8 billion of the venture

[KARM]

Are you unwilling or unable to read the word "manned?"

It must have made Putin so proud when the Americans had to come and beg for the Russians to allow them to use their spacecraft to bring Americans into space. "Please, comrade Putin... can we hitch a ride in your Soyuz?." He must have been beaming.

[RWGR]

footed $17.8 billion of the venture

Well kudos on money well spent. Might as well invest that money where the space technology leaders are!!!

[RWGR]

Are you unwilling or unable to read the word "manned?"

It must have made Putin so proud when the Americans had to come and beg for the Russians to allow them to use their spacecraft to bring Americans into space. "Please, comrade Putin... can we hitch a ride in your Soyuz?." He must have been beaming.

So they could dock at the space station we engineered.

We build the shuttle, You build that arm that attaches to the shuttle.

we win.

[RWGR]

Canada footed $17.8 billion of the venture

Ooops, caught you in just a small lie!

The University of Guelphs Ralf Gellert is the lead scientist on the Canadian contribution, which cost $17.8 million to develop.

Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/technol...#ixzz22oCrCJNF

[KARM]

Won what? All your manned spacecraft are collecting dust in museums. Obviously Russia watched NASA very closely to see what NOT to do. 20 years ago Russia was broke with their citizens in bread lines while America was "winning" in space. Now the US astronauts have to stand at the side of the road with a thumb in the air begging Russia for a ride to space while Americans are lined up for unemployment cheques and food stamps.

Enjoy your win!

[RWGR]

Won what? All your manned spacecraft are collecting dust in museums. Obviously Russia watched NASA very closely to see what NOT to do. 20 years ago Russia was broke with their citizens in bread lines while America was "winning" in space. Now the US astronauts have to stand at the side of the road with a thumb in the air begging Russia for a ride to space while Americans are lined up for unemployment cheques and food stamps.

Enjoy your win!

Our manned program has accomplished all it needed to accomplish. Now our focus is on unmanned missions.

So, while Russia endlessly sends man after man up to orbit the earth for no good reason, and while Canada begs us to be a part of our next mission, we indeed will enjoy our WIN!!

By the way, why hasn't CASA (Canadian Aeronautics and Space Administration) sent any crafts to the moon or mars yet??? I mean, other than the fact it doesn't exist???

[Hans]

Has anybody ever wondered why all of a sudden the USSR dropped out of the space race?

[KARM]

I wouldn't expect Canada to have our own space program, we are not a global superpower.

The US, being a superpower in decline, has to bow down to Russia in order to put a man in orbit. That's just sad. Borrowing money from China to ask Russia for permission to to go into space.

Canada may have made the robotic arm but it's Russia that is giving the US the finger.

The US accomplished all they needed to in orbit? Yeah, that's why Neil Armstrong calls NASA an embarrassment.

[RWGR]

Has anybody ever wondered why all of a sudden the USSR dropped out of the space race?

We forced them to drop out, they couldn't keep up.

We win (just like in soccer)

[RWGR]

I wouldn't expect Canada to have our own space program, we are not a global superpower.

The US, being a superpower in decline, has to bow down to Russia in order to put a man in orbit. That's just sad. Borrowing money from China to ask Russia for permission to to go into space.

Canada may have made the robotic arm but it's Russia that is giving the US the finger.

The US accomplished all they needed to in orbit? Yeah, that's why Neil Armstrong calls NASA an embarrassment.

The USA is the only superpower left. Russia cannot engineer a craft to Mars, so they send men into orbit...just like we did fifty years ago.

Neil Armstrong is mad because he is old school, and wants more money for manned flight. NASA is going in another direction.

Sorry, we win, all around (just like in soccer)!!!!

[Soundbear]

Yeah, Neil is old school.

He thinks that men should GO, they don't play video games.

Sending robots to Mars is a show, nothing more.

[RWGR]

Yeah, Neil is old school.

He thinks that men should GO, they don't play video games.

Sending robots to Mars is a show, nothing more.

The technology does not exist to send men much further than the moon at this point. Neil thinks we should just keep sending men to the moon. NASA says we are moving above and beyond.

Yup, he is old school. Just because you are too doesn't mean he's right.

[Soundbear]

The problem is that you have little idea of what is possible in earth orbit.

That's because you're "too smart" to read speculative literature, i.e. well written and researched science fiction.

Too bad.

However, I'd be glad to send you some.

[RWGR]

Meanwhile, here is how Russia's last attempt to send a craft to Mars worked out ...

The Russian space agency is battling to save a faulty Mars probe that became stuck in Earth's orbit after booster rockets failed to fire shortly after launch.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...ncy-mars-probe

[RWGR]

The problem is that you have little idea of what is possible in earth orbit.

That's because you're "too smart" to read speculative literature, i.e. well written and researched science fiction.

Too bad.

However, I'd be glad to send you some.

And you are too smart to believe that much of the science fiction you read is just that...FICTION.

We've been orbiting earth for almost fifty years. Yippee.

Time to move on. Move over, we'll lead the way.

As usual.

[Hans]

We forced them to drop out, they couldn't keep up.

We win (just like in soccer)

Incorrect. The reason why they could not keep up was the dead of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Without him the USSR space program was effectively dead in the water.

[RWGR]

Incorrect. The reason why they could not keep up was the dead of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Without him the USSR space program was effectively dead in the water.

Well then it wasn't much of an agency at all if the death of one man could doom it.

Much like the Russian economy and supposed superiority with weapons, it was all done with smoke and mirrors.

[Soundbear]

And you are too smart to believe that much of the science fiction you read is just that...FICTION.

We've been orbiting earth for almost fifty years. Yippee.

Time to move on. Move over, we'll lead the way.

As usual.

"We" lead the way?? Close. I wouldn't call a robot part of "we".

As to the fifty years, well, sci-fi speculated about a lot of interesting things that could be done in orbit with existing technology. Power satellites, medical science breakthroughs, manufacturing processes impossible in earth gravity, food production, life extension technologies, on and on.

Sending a robot all the way to Mars is useless at this point in time.