$250 Billion, that's $250,000,000,000 or one fourth of $1 Trillion dollars....That is how much it is going to cost you and me, the American taxpayers, if and when another manned space flight program is initiated in the future. There is on alternative. We continue with the SPACE SHUTTLE Program and build upon it. Here is the solution and it is so simple, so economical, so obvious, a caveman could have figured it out.
We stretch a SPACE SHUTTLE and build a liquid propelled booster for the SPACE SHUTTLE to ride to orbit. Isn't that an elegant, beautiful solution......
Hang on, it gets even better! That new booster we just built is also our newest spacecraft that will be capable of voyages to the moon, Mars and selected moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Wait, even more good news! We launch the new booster with "piggybacked" SPACE SHUTTLE from a magnetic levitated track that will serve as a first stage for all future space launches, both manned and unmanned. That means no more expensive expendable parts and no more dangerous, uncontrollable solid fueled rockets.
Even more good news! The SPACE SHUTTLE will get upgrades that should have been done immediately after the 1986 tragedy. The new launching system will eliminate threats to the exterior tiles. The old tiles will be replaced by new composite material being tested on the X-37B by the USAF as I write this blog. New retro-rockets will be installed in the SPACE SHUTTLE and the new booster spacecraft that will dramatically reduced dangerous air friction upon reentries to the atmosphere.
HERE'S THE BAD NEWS!!!!
None of this is going to happen unless President Obama saves the SPACE SHUTTLE from destruction immediately. You must write him at:
THE WHITE HOUSE
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D. C. 20500
We can do this..........
