Lift-Off For Space X / NASA!: You Can't Spell Triumph Without Trump

And You Can't Spell Trump Without Triumph!

"When Charles Lindbergh was asked why he crossed the Atlantic, he never once answered that he wanted to win the $25,000 that New York City hotel owner Raymond Orteig offered for the first nonstop aircraft flight between New York and Paris."--Michael Griffin

Today was a giant step in returning man to the stars.

But, first a look back, lest we forget what is at stake...

"1972 Called: It Wants Its Heroic Spirit Back."

"We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."--Ronald Reagan

“We can’t expect to be number one in everything indefinitely.” --Top administration Science Advisor Dr. John P. Holdren to American students

"Obama’s is a stunted vision, and one that deliberately scales back the horizon for Western man, leaving the Chinese and Russians as de facto kings of the cosmos. Though the president believes that he’s smartly tossing a cumbersome program into the bin, along with its cowboy ethos, he forgets that astronauts are more than overpaid automatons of the state — they’re heroes, men whose adventures are an instrumental part of America’s own. The president looks at moondust and sees dirt."--Robert Costa

When I was recently listing some of the many, many, many ways in which Comrade O had abased himself before Putin and Russia, I forgot this one:

Robert Costa: “I just have to say, pretty bluntly here, that we’ve been [to the moon] before,” Obama declared in front of an eerily quiet NASA audience. ...When he spoke at the Kennedy Space Center during the run-up to the 2008 election, Obama vowed to protect the jobs of the facility’s workers before an audience that included them; not a single space worker was invited to attend yesterday’s speech."

If it was a Crescent Moon, he'd go there.

Obama BEFORE the election:

“Obama commits to moon mission” By Robert Block, Orlando Sentinel, August, 16 2008

Obama AFTER the election:

“Obama aims to ax moon mission” By Robert Block, Orlando Sentinel, January 27, 2010

FoxNews, May, 2010:

"Earlier this week, the administration said it would rescue a small part of the moon program: its Orion crew capsule. But instead of taking four astronauts to the moon, the not-yet-built Orion will be slimmed down and used as an emergency escape pod on the [Russian] space station."

What a perfect metaphor for Obama's vision: from "To Boldly Go Where No Man has Gone Before !" to "Keep your head down, crawl into the escape pod and nobody will get hurt."

"America--We Lead the World in Escape Pod Technology!"

That would be an escape pod from the Soyuz Space Station--if we can even beg the Russians to sell us the rocket engines to get there in the first place:

How a U.S.-Russian Space Rocket Deal Funds Putin's Cronies: Putin’s space industry is managed by two Russian officials sanctioned over the invasion of Ukraine. So why is the Pentagon buying $2 billion from it?

Way to stand up to Putin, Barry. You showed him."...….

Obama groveled before Putin on earth and in space because it debased America in general and specifically because he needed Putin's help in selling the Iran Deal to Americans. That's also why Ukraine got no arms from Quid Pro Barry. Putin forbade it.

The Iran Deal was Barack Obama's Moon-Shot.

Rescuing the Mullahs with billions in cash, sanctions-relief funding, bank-laundering, diplomatic recognition, uranium, no verification self-inspection, Russian anti-aircraft weapons to target American pilots and permission to build nuclear ICBMs was the singular reason Obama ran for president in the first place.

And of course, help to keep their knee on the neck of the beautiful Iranian people. The Mullahs do to their people what Officer Chauvin did to George Lloyd every day--and Obama helped them do it.

Crippling our space program was just a bonus.

That is what is at stake, lest we forget the Years of the Locusts.

We also want to remember The Glory Years:

"Houston, we have a Buzz."

"Happy 100th Birthday to Ms. Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer who calculated trajectories for the Apollo space missions by hand!"--A.B. Hosey

Q: How do you live to 120?
Gen. Yeager: First, you live to 119, then you be very very careful. #Longevity

Capt. Cernan: "Always"

TODAY: 

By the Grace of God, we're going back to the Moon, on to Mars and beyond to the stars.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — "A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered away from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back in the business of launching astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.

NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rode skyward aboard a white-and-black, bullet-shaped Dragon capsule on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, lifting off at 3:22 p.m. from the same launch pad used to send Apollo crews to the moon a half-century ago. Minutes later, they slipped safely into orbit.

“Let’s light this candle,” Hurley said just before ignition, borrowing the words used by Alan Shepard on America’s first human spaceflight, in 1961.

The two men are scheduled to arrive Sunday at the International Space Station, 250 miles above Earth, to join three crew members already there. After a stay of up to four months, they will come home with a Right Stuff-style splashdown at sea, something the world hasn’t witnessed since the 1970s."

"In the years ahead, America will go bigger, bolder, further, faster, and America will go first. 

America’s proudest moments are still ahead."

                              Proverbs 29:17-18 King James Version (KJV)
¹⁷ Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. ¹⁸ Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
                                             Amen and Amen!