Rene-NASA-Mooned-America

By Invitation Only / Chap. 16 p. 140
"NASA exists to inspire people and serve as a source of intellectual nourishment.
From a practical standpoint, NASA and its programs are an ideal vehicle to enliven
education. From a more philosophical standpoint, the desire to explore and conquer the
unknown appeals to a basic component of human nature.
NASA exists to provide hope that the future will be better than the past. A hope that
our children and grandchildren will enjoy good health, a clean environment and a
prosperous society.
NASA exists to create economic opportunity, because technological advances are a
key way to create new products, new industries and new jobs. And this opportunity
should exist for all people, from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds.
And finally, NASA exists to serve as a catalyst for peace in the post-Cold War
world."
Following the information was that NASA had its very own cable TV station called
NASA Select. 3 They also put out recorded radio broadcasts. I also received a total shock
when the results of their propaganda convention revealed that although NASA was wonderful,
the hand-picked attendees biggest criticism was that NASA is not quite bold enough.
They wanted more Apollo-type missions! An overview followed praising the positive results
of the "town meetings", accompanied by a NASA promise to do even more with our money
in the future.
Then I discovered a strange piece of information which declared that NASA plans to
review its patents and licensing procedures. 4 The idea of our own government's bureaucracy
spending our tax money to develop something, but then withholding it from us by license
and patent, is totally obscene. Patents were intended to help individual inventors profit from
their creations, not to give governmental monopolies.
The brochure then went on with a synopsis of each of the meetings. And guess what
Buzz Aldrin himself made a public appearance and questioned the NASA panel. The question
that comes immediately to mind is, "Why wasn't he on the panel where he could be
questioned" Maybe his questions were pre-arranged "soft balls".
Parenthetically, there are 27 pictures in that book and the administrator is on ten of them.
Not being familiar with corporate blurb, I can't tell whether this is just 'par for the course' or
simply because he's so photogenic.
Surprisingly there was not a word about Moon bases or Mars missions. Just a lot of
politically correct social statements. The last time NASA ripped us off they told us they were
the "Space Agency". Now they are social workers. Looking back at their "rationale" printed
above, those paragraphs are hardly the reason for being an agency, presumably on the cutting
edge. Also, when the administrator speaks of the "Agency's employees" does he maybe
mean the CIA, which is often referred to as "THE AGENCY" I personally believe that
administrator Goldin, or any other NASA pooh-bah who is so interested in things social,
should be transferred to a job running the welfare bureau.
However, to give the NASA devils their due, they actually did print a few of the adverse
comments made. Someone complained that exploring space should be delayed because
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene