Xref: utzoo sci.space:13218 sci.space.shuttle:3515 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!bionet!agate!shelby!portia!Jessica!paulf From: paulf@Jessica.stanford.edu (Paul Flaherty) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: space news from July 17 AW&ST Message-ID: <4686@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 21 Aug 89 18:32:30 GMT References: <1989Aug21.022319.22222@utzoo.uucp> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: paulf@Jessica.Stanford.EDU (Paul Flaherty) Followup-To: sci.space Organization: The Three Packeteers Lines: 21 In article <1989Aug21.022319.22222@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >Truly says he recently reviewed Wernher von Braun's >original post-Apollo plan, and that if NASA funding had remained stable >instead of declining, the US would be operating a manned lunar base and >a space station and would have crews en route to Mars. "Where are the >US space visionaries of comparable stature today?" Not at NASA. The kind of leadership needed is not political; it's technological, and we're not producing it here in the US anymore. Our science and tech education is worse off than it was before Sputnik. Engineering schools are wallowing in theory and not practice. Public school science and math courses are being taught by people who have little knowledge and little enthusiasm for the subject, resulting in students with little knowledge or enthusiasm. When was the last time you saw a high school shooting model rockets? Okay, so we've all heard it before. Then why isn't anything being done? -=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | "I asked for a dissertation topic, and for my ->paulf@shasta.Stanford.EDU | sins, they gave me one."