[FPSPACE] Canada takes lead from NASA

[mattwriter at aol.com]

How about "due to NASA's being charged with far more responsibilities than it is given the budget for, forcing many worthy missions to be dropped"? 
They're far from perfect at NASA, but to charge them with being irresponsible here given their fiscal reality is unfair. What missions would you have canceled for a NEO mission?

Matt Bille


-----Original Message-----
From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at hotmail.com>
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Sent: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:54 pm
Subject: [FPSPACE] Canada takes lead from NASA


In a truly pathetic display of NASA irresponsibility, incompetence, and general stupidity, Canada launches the first space based NEO detection satellite:

http://www.neossat.ca/

and moves into a leadership role in dealing with this hazard. 

My congratulations to the Canadian team. Its comforting to know the space leadership of other countries don't have their heads up their arses.  Somebody really needs to look into Morrison and Weiler's role in Griffin's contempt of Congress. Perhaps the new NASA IG, at the request of House or Senate members.

The link to this came from A.C. Charania's site:
http://planetarydefense.blogspot.com/
which is pretty good. 

He receives support because he takes Morrison's line that only asteroids hit. But the problem is that COMETS and COMET PIECES and not asteroids form the bulk of the impact hazard. Read my book for details.

We're going to be in the midst of Schwassmann Wachmann 3's debris train in 2022.

E.P. Grondine
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