Articulating the Vision Thing

This new NASA budget is causing great rejoicing and also great gnashing of teeth and wailing.  Maybe that's what makes this whole process so interesting and compelling.  Yet, there's a lot of confusion over what this all means.  So I'm going to try and articulate what the actual vision might be for this new budget, and what it means for NASA, Americans, and for all of us as a space fairing civilization. 

I think I can state it quite simply, so here’s the Vision: Thanks to NASA, we now know how to get from the Earth up To Low Earth Orbit (ETO).  Commercial Enterprises now have the knowledge and experience to provide that service.  Let them take advantage of free market forces to increase supply and reduce prices.  NASA can now focus on developing the technology and approaches that will allow us to go out into the rest of the Solar System.  This is one of the things that NASA does best.

And that’s what the new Budget Reflects:  Commercial Enterprise for ETO, NASA R&D for Greater Space Exploration out beyond Earth Orbit. 

To really get the point across, maybe the message has to be reduced to something that will fit on a bumper sticker.  So here are my suggestions:  

1.  Going from Deep Sh*t to Deep Space

2.  Not About to be Shafted Again

3.  Space is a Noun, not an Adjective

4.  NASA:  Too Legit to Quit

5.  When you find yourself in a gravity well, stop digging

6.  Let the invisible hand work, not just the finger

7.  Space Entrepreneur: No longer an Oxymoron

8:  Get On, Sit Up, Shut Down, Hang In

9.  Up, Ours

10. Keep on Rocket in the Free World

11. ETO is Good to Go, How ‘bout we Go some Mo’

12.  Commercial Space:  Taking the RATION out of INSPIRATION  

Maybe you’ll be inspired to produce some more of your own.  After all, it really is about the vision thing. 

Comments

[john hare]

Space, it's half past time to go and time to go again.

My other car is a LynxII

Keep your jets hot, skin cool, and wheels in the wells

Will space for food

[John Bossard]

John H,
thanks for trying

[john hare]

Leave the Riff Raff behind at Mach 25

[Habitat Hermit]

Like #1 the best, #5 next despite the "dwarven" blood in me (we tend to dig all kinds of tunnels and subsurface structures in my country, in both meanings of the word --too many mountains not to) ^_^

[John Bossard]

H H,
I struggled with #5, one could have just as well said, "when you find your self in a gravity well, START digging", but then the meaning started becoming more obscure.