In Bobby Brauns article Space Technology, he states that " The United States is the Nation we are today because of the technological investments made in earlier decades, because of the engineers, scientist and elected officials who had the wisdom and foresight to make the investments required for our country to emerge as a global technological leader." By him saying this its showing us that he is having problems with investing is the space technology that will be needed in the future. "Braun is an American aerospace engineer and the dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder." "He received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Penn state, a master's degree in astronautics from the George Washington University and a doctoral degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Standford University." This piece continues the investment for the space technology that will be needed.
Brauns piece is about all the research that needs to be done in-order for a space shuttle to be launched in to outer space and be able to return without the return process failing. He States' "In a recent report on the state of NASA's technology plans, the National Research Council offered a stark assessment: Success in executing future NASA space missions will
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Because we don’t have the right technology that we need to make the mission possible the astronauts and the scientists who are working with the space technology that is trying to get this to work is having to do more research and more calculations just to make sure nobody is hurt when it comes down to a mission possibly