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Your view of Muslim terrorism, is extremely simplistic and very wrong. The Communists were fighting Muslim terrorists long before Bush 43 came along. Hundreds of US servicemen died from radical Muslims at the marine barracks and yet Reagan was indeed the fool for not responding to Iranians that attack, instead he ordered US Marines to run home with their tail between their legs. You can read his archived speeches, Reagan dropped the ball on the radical Islamic issue because he hated the Soviets more. US support for insurgents continued starting with funding from the US, shipping through Saudi and finally into the front supporting the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan. Clinton also had a bleeding heart for the Muslims, Clinton also can be blamed for not taking the threats of Islamic terrorism seriously enough and getting all cosy with Arafat at the Whitehouse. Tom do you oppose Musharraf because did you know right now he's one of the few friends the US has in the Middle East ? Musharraf is helping the US on this war on terror, unlike India (a nation described by Nixon as commie stooges). India hasn't been a great ally,  India which has contributed nothing to America's war in Iraq and India never helped with Afghanistan. There are many Hindu crazies and thier roots trace back to the partition 60 years ago. India remembers when it was all just one country. Musharraf has made mistakes but he's a key ally, he destroyed radical islamic schools and he opposes islamic extremism. Pakistan is a free nation with a pro-American leader. If he falls, then there is a chance nuclear weapons will fall into the hands of the kamikaze Islamics.

I'm no fan of Communism, I think its got a terrible record on freedom and its a deeply flawed political system - but Reagan supporting Islamics against the commies was a mistake, Clinton also dropped the ball.

and Tom I've seen some of your posts and some of them are really rightwing or biased, your negative attitude is very often irrational
I think you might put into your signature "I hate the Russian race and I hate commies" Practicing racism is however unacceptable and generally against the law.

-> Back to this outsourcing business, I think NASA will try to avoid it but if the missions get too costly there's nothing NASA can do to prevent it from happening. If it can't be homegrown and NASA wants to cut costs then contracts will go to Europe, India, Russia...wherever. With Shuttle soon retiring NASA may have to rely solely on Russian ships, effectively having to buy trips into space. Did you know that one of the reasons the Lockheed Martin Atlas rockets are flying so well is the rocket uses the RD180 design made by some commie Ukrainians and Russians.

A man, a plan, a planet: Mars Direct

http://www.thevarsity.ca/article/438

My mistake

but ScientificAmerica reported him as a 'space-tourist'

New crew and a tourist arrive at space station

:oops:

Peggy Whitson has a well established career and she's already taken part in a six-month duration flight onboard the Station. In October 24th we will see two female mission commanders in orbit as STS-120 joins the crew. Yuri Malenchenko is a real veteran cosmonaut with lots of experience from his stays on the MIR station, he's done joint US-Russian Shutte flights and done the ISS. Happy to see Malaysia getting into space, the more nations that join the club the better. I wonder who will be the next country in space, this 'Tourism' thing has really kicked off

DPS: Sending humans to an asteroid?
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001184/

Preparing for Mars500 - a simulated mission to Mars
Vodcast | Download
http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEMPYA7H07F_index_0.html

That whole India thing was about George Walker Bush courting India, it was carrot-and-stick style politics. The courting, sending Griffin over, siging the reactor deals etc was done particularly in relation to them signing that Non-Proliferation thing. However the Donkey Ate the Carrot and the NPT is dead now. India is still committed to buying fuel from Tehran and it may not be long before the Iranians test a Nuke like the N.Koreans did.

I haven't heard anything, but I assume it will take a few Snapshots to calibrate during the fly by like the Mariners or Rosetta did. A few snapshots are going to add much about our understanding of Mars because it has many orbiters already mapping the surface.

Biggest Space Telescope Yet On Display in Europe
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007 … ace-t.html
The European Space Agency offered a  preview look Thursday at its powerful Herschel, which, when launched next year, will be the largest space telescope yet put into orbit.

Asia nations race to the moon
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/n … nrace.html

Nuclear-powered lunar rover
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/03/chin … nar-rover/

Perhaps the most interesting part of this design is its dual-mode power system, which consists of the standard solar cell array as well as a nuclear power source, allowing the rover to operate continuously and in areas that go long periods without sunlight. No word yet on when exactly the Chinese will pick the winning rover, but expect whichever model emerges victorious to head skyward sometime in 2012.

SPUTNIK AT FIFTY I
By Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami
Published: October 3, 2007

Boarding now for Mars

It's harder to predict whether we will also have colonized the Moon. NASA has already started "Apollo on steroids," which will give us our first chance to leave Earth orbit since 1972. But many space researchers think it would be a mistake to focus our efforts on a Moon colony, delaying a vigorous start of a nuclear Martian program.

Euronews video
http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page= … 8721&lng=1
Preparing the way for a mission to Mars