The public anouncement of Iran's decision to start and complete before 9 only Years its own, independent Human Space Flights with a Shuttle reusable Vehicle, in addition to Satellites, Rockets, etc., makes even more obvious the Risks in US President Obama's controversial choice to Halt and abandon, on the contrary, America's huge investments in Human Space Flights and Exploration, that all his predecessors, from the Right to the Left of the Political Spectrum, had notoriously pursued since the famous John Kennedy landmark 1960 Decision to send the 1st Man in the Moon, and to focus, instead, only on ISS tests with unclear aims.
Iran has already launched, with its own means, a Satellite on 2009, and prepares another one in August 2010, while it's also reportedly planning a 3rd one together with other OIC members, (apparently including Turkey's notoriously aggressive military). Critics suspect a covert attempt to develop Ballistic Missiles Technolgy, able to touch and hit even remote targets, located far away.
. President Ahmadinejad now added a fresh decision to accelerate Iran's Human Space Flight programme, including Shuttles, etc., shortening it from 2025 to 2022, and now just to 2019, i.e. in less than 9 Years !
Other Countries spend, in the Past, about 15 Years to arrive at a Human Space Flight level from scratch, but only 8 other Countries have, until now, succeeded to launch their own, domestically fabricated Satellite, by their own means, as Iran has recently done.
Such New Facts on Iran's Plans, added also to China's own, rapidly evolving, big Space Ambitions, etc., clearly show that the Security of the Western World, as well as Global Security, can put into serious Trouble, and even Risk, if those who advised Obama to scrap USA's Space Exploration and Human Space Flight Programs, (including ending Shuttle earlier, abandoning NASA's Plans to rapidly create a New Reusable Space Vehicle, etc), don't change their mind soon enough to have a real chance to rectify on Time, before HSF, Shuttle, a.o. Strategic Dual Technologies are left to other, more of less Dangerous new Space Players.
