[paraclete]

As I said before Tom no vision

[tomder55]

How's that Aussie program going ? The closest you get to ISS is when you see it on a cloudless night. Oh yeah ;and 2 Aussies hitched a ride on the Shuttle ,Paul Scully-Power and Andy Thomas .

Where is the Aussie module to ISS ? When was the last time a rocket launched off Aussie soil... if only to put your own satellites in orbit ?
Talk about vision!

US robots have left the solar system and are orbitting Venus and the Sun . US telescopes in space have seen the far edges of the Universe .

You in contast act like a 3rd world nation selling your minerals and wheat to China in the hope they'll launch a weather satellite for you . Even Iran is further advanced .

[paraclete]

How's that Aussie program going ? The closest you get to ISS is when you see it on a cloudless night. Oh yeah ;and 2 Aussies hitched a ride on the Shuttle ,Paul Scully-Power and Andy Thomas .

Where is the Aussie module to ISS ? When was the last time a rocket launched off of Aussie soil ...if only to put your own satellites in orbit ?
Talk about vision!

US robots have left the solar system and are orbitting Venus and the Sun . US telescopes in space have seen the far edges of the Universe .

You in contast act like a 3rd world nation selling your minerals and wheat to China in the hope they'll launch a weather satellite for you . Even Iran is further advanced .

Well Tom our space program doesn't rely on placing fail humanity on lifeless worlds, or researching what others are already researching, rather our advances and contribution have been in the area of radio astronomy. We have a plan for a space port in northern Australia but as is usual in this place the environmental lobby, led by tactless yoboos from other places, on behalf of a few cassawarys and kangaroos, have gotten in the way.

You can shout your achievements but they aren't even enough to keep your space program afloat. It seems that space isn't as interesting as we first thought. No new worlds to conquer there, at least not ones we can reach for the time being. You should remember who helped you develop the atomic bomb or is that a painful memory. As far as third world selling our minerals, you would rush to do the same given the opportunity we will still have minerals to burn when the lights go out over there. As a modestly sized and resourced nation we do what we can which makes us a far greater contributor per capita than yourselves whose advances seem directed only to military purposes. Remember who gave you wifi
But here are a few;
Ausroc IV - Launch Vehicles
ULV22 Launch Vehicle - launch from Hummock Hill Island, Queenslandp://www.aerospaceguide.net/ULV22.html
What this tells us is we provide what capability we can and borrow what we don't have. You should remember Tom that we still have stone age people among our population so our priorities aren't so much outer space as out back space. We might yet hitch a ride on a Chinese rocket