How does the arrest of the NASA astronaut affect your image of the space program?

Answer 1

One bad apple, now removed, won't spoil the space program.

Answer 2

When during the course of the forty years of the space program we the public got to the point when we didn't know any of the names of the astronauts, they ceased to be a part of the space program that we're interested in. Most people couldn't name you more than three men that walked on the moon let alone who flew on STS73. For a government agency that is supposed to be civilian NASA is very closed to the public. The various NASA centers around the country are no longer free to the public. I have recieved e-mails from NASA for years about the shuttle program and I can tell you that anytime anything intersting is happening the press is invited but never the public not even on a limited basis. Nasa has always conducted inself like the man who afraid to loose his job. All through the Apollo program it was thought that any major loss of life could mean the end of the program. They conducted themselves this way and the got cold feet and stopped doing lunar flights with a collective sigh of relief. No one notice we had quit watching.

Answer 3

It doesn't affect any image of the space program. She's a human being who got caught up in some serious emotions. She's need to deal with that and take the proper steps to get help. As far the space program Americans should keep their asses out of space, because every time we go up there we screw with the ozone layer and the weather. There isn't a damn thing up there that we need to see, and all that money they spend could be used to house and feed people. Why is America always trying to invest in something that isn't worth a damn and not in the people that are living right here right now.

Answer 4

This doesn't affect my image of the space program either positively or negatively. It does, in my opinion, confirm my belief that NASA has more PR people to spin for them that does any other government agency. I firmly believe, based on past experience with NASA that they employ more PR people than they have engineers.

My real disbelief comes once again at why, in a triangle with one man and two woman, one woman would blame another woman. This is clearly the mans choice. He set his relationships up the way he wants them. It the women start fighting, he will simply replace the trouble maker. Women seen to have a hard time grasping this simple fact.

Answer 5

Not a whole lot, it's been pretty low since NASA began giving away joy rides on the shuttle to Senators and school teachers back in the mid 80s.

Answer 6

It doesn't affect my image of NASA at all. She is as human as us all. The human condition is a very complex one, and the mind is even more. If we expect perfection from them then why explore space, might as well spend all that money trying to create a perfect human race first.

Answer 7

Of course not. That's like saying my image of men change because the male astronaut in the triangle used both women...

Answer 8

It's just mind-boggling to me that someone could have one of the most sought after jobs in history - a woman yet - and blow it. Clearly, she was mentally ill, but I have no reason to believe that NASA is at fault or was endangered. Don't care much for the space program, anyway.

Answer 9

Not much. Just because one person messes up doesn't mean that everyone else in the program is doing wrong. As with any other profession, you get those bad seeds.

Answer 10

there's always the 'human factor' . we try to train and find people with the right stuff, but they are only human and with all the demands on them, these high achievers can buckle. enter human emotion and you have the makings of a tempest. The program is no less thorough than it ever was.