INSTANT THRILLING ROCKET/HISTORICAL GUEST: Nicholas Thurkettle @NThurkettle co-author of New Historical Science Fiction novel Seeing By Moonlight
AFTER THE VIRGIN GALACTIC AND ANTARES ROCKET CATASTROPHES, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
USING THE PAST TO LOOK TOWARDS THE FUTURE, HEAR WHAT THIS ROCKETRY EXPERT AND AUTHOR HAS TO SAY
After the and the failed test flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo and the explosion of the Antares Rocket off the coast of Virginia from the NASA contractor Orbital Sciences Corp. the world is left wondering, where do we go from here in the space race? Nicholas Thurkettle co author with M.F. Thomas released the book Seeing by Moonlight that suggests we look to the past and examine the influence of WWII era German rocket technology from Werner Van Braun and how it helped shape NASA’s heyday before any other problems flare up!
We speak w/Nicholas About:
-The latest information on what caused these two serious space setbacks to occur within hours of one another, and how to make sure similar incidents don’t happen again
-Privatization of the space program vs. NASA, and whether these incidents will cause a change in how Washington sees the agency
- What steps these companies, and NASA, are going to have to undertake now to redeem themselves in the public’s eyes
- How NASA is sputtering and dying because of government funding cuts and lack of vision
- Whether NASA should be privatized altogether?