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Rethinking NASA

Bill Whittle Network

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4.9720 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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With Butch and Sunny back on earth with their hibernation cells fully intact, and with DOGE cutting government waste hither and yon, it’s time to take a cold, hard look at our once-beloved NASA and see what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Well, some of you may have seen it and some of you haven't, but back in 2019, I did a 50th anniversary of the Apollo program, four-part series for Daily Wire, called Apollo 11, what we saw.

0:10.3

I think it's the best work I ever did, and it's impossible to watch that without feeling the love and affection I had for NASA in the 1960s, and I've lost that love and feeling.

0:23.6

Hi, everybody, I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott. The good news is it looks like Butch and Sonny are safely back on Earth.

0:26.9

Better news.

0:27.9

They came down on a very reliable, virtually unheard of inexpensive vehicle called the Dragon,

0:35.9

which is a privately owned space capsule.

0:38.9

The government subsidized NASA Boeing Starliner capsule that they went up on,

0:44.4

which had been delayed again and again and again, was deemed unsafe for return after billions and billions of dollars of spending on a capsule.

0:53.1

A capsule.

0:54.1

This is what we did rather well back in

0:56.0

1960, I guess, for the redesign of the Apollo command module.

1:02.9

Steve, oh, I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Union Scott out, by the way.

1:07.9

The current plans for manned spaceflight, as far as NASA is concerned consists of the following

1:12.9

we're going to create the Starliner capsule so that we have a second way to get to the

1:16.7

space station that was jettisoned from the space station as space junk re-entered the atmosphere

1:21.2

had some problems was deemed unsafe for human spaceflight after god knows how much money and

1:26.3

years and overruns and so on.

1:29.2

NASA also has plans to go back to the moon with the Artemis program, which probably should

1:34.7

have been called the Dionysius program, because they are having a bit of a problem.

1:42.3

They sent an unmanned Orion capsule, which is also looks like

1:46.9

was built by apes when compared to just the dragon capsule that, that SpaceX put out. And

1:53.8

there's plans for a four-person crew to go next year, April of 2006, on a mission around the moon, this time man mission

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