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Celestial Discharge: Neil Armstrong First Man on the Moon

~ Pharmer

One of our local heroes, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, has died at age 82 from complications of cardiac bypass surgery.

“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” is Armstrong’s famous quote, radioed back to Earth from the surface of the moon. His flight to the moon, which included landing the Eagle manually on the surface, was the pinnacle following a career as a Naval pilot of just about every kind of military aircraft.

Armstrong attended and taught at local academic stomping grounds of Purdue and University of Cincinnati. He has been much celebrated around this area, though he’s always been the quiet, steadfast kind of guy who had no use for fame and public adulation. He also owned a farm in the vicinity of Lebanon Ohio and preferred the privacy of that environment after his retirement from NASA. He also continued in his Aeronautical engineering profession as an executive and teacher.

Prayers for the family and loved ones of Neil Armstrong. whose last flight is to God. He’s a guy whose quiet courage will be much missed.
Prayers also that America recovers from its cultural slump and the urge to strive, develop and explore will be reawakened.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82 – Cosmic Log.

NASA main mission to promote better relations with the Muslim world

~ Pharmer

FOXNews.com – NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World.

Forget outer space……. NASA chief Charles Bolden say’s his agency’s main mission is exploring the inner space of the Muslim’s minds.  His job is to make Muslims love US.

Not only is this a misuse of NASA, which was founded for the purpose of space exploration, and is filled with scientists who don’t do diplomacy, it is a mission doomed to failure.

Bolden’s boss,  Obama  does not believe in the personal disciplines and restrictions taught in Islam.   He flouts most of them.  Certainly he romanticizes the trappings and ritual of Islam, but the discipline part of it is lost on him.  For that reason,  he will never have the respect of Muslims.

This also holds true for our leftists who have paradoxically embraced the outer shell of Islam, while remaining blissfully oblivious of its strict social and job segregation of women,  its Old Testament-style  treatment of criminals,  it’s anti-abortion ethic, etc. Leftists have opposed the social standards of Islam for centuries,  and now are inexplicably drawn to it, due to their unresolved conflicts with Christian forebears.

Likely there will be massive personnel changes within NASA, with ejection of most of those who perform science and engineering functions,  and replacement by lawyers and diplomats.

Neil Armstrong is Strongly Critical of Obama’s Crippling of US Space Program

~ Pharmer

Here’s the text of a letter from three luminaries of space exploration provided at the Politico.

“The United States entered into the challenge of space exploration under President Eisenhower’s first term, however, it was the Soviet Union who excelled in those early years,” the letter begins.”Under the bold vision of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, and with the overwhelming approval of the American people, we rapidly closed the gap in the final third of the 20th century, and became the world leader in space exploration. …

“When President Obama recently released his budget for NASA, he proposed a slight increase in total funding, substantial research and technology development, an extension of the International Space Station operation until 2020, long range planning for a new but undefined heavy lift rocket and significant funding for the development of commercial access to low earth orbit.

“Although some of these proposals have merit, the accompanying decision to cancel the Constellation program, its Ares 1 and Ares V rockets, and the Orion spacecraft, is devastating.

“America’s only path to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station will now be subject to an agreement with Russia to purchase space on their Soyuz (at a price of over 50 million dollars per seat with significant increases expected in the near future) until we have the capacity to provide transportation for ourselves. The availability of a commercial transport to orbit as envisioned in the President’s proposal cannot be predicted with any certainty, but is likely to take substantially longer and be more expensive than we would hope.

“It appears that we will have wasted our current ten plus billion dollar investment in Constellation and, equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded.

For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. While the President’s plan envisages humans traveling away from Earth and perhaps toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years.

Without the skill and experience that actual spacecraft operation provides, the USA is far too likely to be on a long downhill slide to mediocrity. America must decide if it wishes to remain a leader in space. If it does, we should institute a program which will give us the very best chance of achieving that goal.

Neil Armstrong

Commander, Apollo 11

James Lovell

Commander, Apollo 13

Eugene Cernan

Commander, Apollo 17

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A Twist on Issue of Killing the Constellation Program

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Maybe the Moon is not a place for Obama’s  kind……. the  state-worshiping  kind.  He’s  no Christian, nor does he practice as a   Muslim.  Neither religion allows for such anti-life   extremism as he  espouses.

Eric Metaxas » Archive » Communion on the Moon: July 20th, 1969.

It appears, according to Eric Metaxas and Buzz Aldrin,  that the first Meal served up on the moon was to remember Jesus Christ and thereby honor the Creator.

Maybe it’s fitting for Obama to avoid the place, and cut off  access given his  current state of mind.   He doesn’t have  the nerve  to reach out that far, and hence is killing  the most beneficial long-range government program ever implemented.

America will go back after Obama’s  term is up.   Maybe private entrepreneurs have sufficient faith to  do it better.