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Fezziwig
Nov 23, 2012Explorer
Cape Canaveral is and was just a launch site for heavy duty rockets, which become less significant as NASA shifts from launching meat rockets into near space and towards launching unmanned probes further into space, requiring greater distances, longer delivery times, and greater flight dangers.
Scientific and engineering work thus shifted to Southern California where JPL in Pasadena has the greatest experience and staffing in the world, and access to great universities (built by California taxpayers) from all segments of American society regardless of class, race, sex, or family condition.
I suggest you watch that documentary on the Curiosity Mars rover to see modern NASA in action on the kind of science that produces the greatest harvesting of the kind of knowledge advancement we need for the future.
Scientific and engineering work thus shifted to Southern California where JPL in Pasadena has the greatest experience and staffing in the world, and access to great universities (built by California taxpayers) from all segments of American society regardless of class, race, sex, or family condition.
I suggest you watch that documentary on the Curiosity Mars rover to see modern NASA in action on the kind of science that produces the greatest harvesting of the kind of knowledge advancement we need for the future.
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