The End Of Off The World As We Know It
Every morning I read a handful of space-related Web sites looking for story ideas. One of the most interesting of those is SpaceDaily.com, which is a Web site dedicated to spaceflight which has an enormously negative attitude toward spaceflight. One wonders how exactly the idea came about--"I'm really turned off by everything about space exploration. I think I'll start a pro-space-exploration Web site." To be fair, the problem is more than the site carries a huge antipathy toward NASA and everything the agency does. However, rather than focusing on all the other things going on (and to be fair, they do have possibly the best coverage of China's space program), they simply sit around bashing NASA. I'm not entirely sure what they do think NASA should be doing, I just know everything they don't think the agency should do (to wit: everything it's doing). Case in point: today's article, "The End Of US Manned Spaceflight Looms Ever Closer." Reading the article, one is struck by the fact that it does not ever actually demonstrate that the end of U.S. manned spaceflight is actually particularly looming. Rather, it just bashes the OSP, largely with outdated information and faulty logic.
OK, I just wanted to rant for a while. And now I have.

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