Comments on: NASA To Open Tracking Station

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:07:58 +0000

That’s not Gus Grissom in the photo…………..

By: Billy M

Billy M — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:51:56 +0000

@Civilization, you can try to convince yourself of that, but you’re whistling past the graveyard. This is not temporary, and it’s not about the global economic downturn. It’s about other, better options being discovered and pursued. The overwhelming majority of those jobs and companies leaving are not coming back. Ever. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, unless it’s already too late.

By: Civilization of a Society

Civilization of a Society — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:23:12 +0000

Bermuda is not Done. Maybe you should consider leaving Bermuda if you have such lack of hope for our island. The declining population of students in school and record number of expacts leaving is just a sign of a temporary shift of people having to make some difficult decisions and Bermuda is not the ony country affected

By: BDA is DONE!

BDA is DONE! — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:50:52 +0000

An era of 30-40 golden years of Bermuda are OVER!! Just look at the declining population of students in schools and record number of expats leaving.
Maybe once the people of BDA wake up and smell the coffee they will stop being so rude.

By: Karen Dill

Karen Dill — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:48:16 +0000

Even if a few cleaning jobs are created, I’m sure they’ll have to hire expats if they want the job done properly.

By: Barracuda

Barracuda — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:01:21 +0000

We can now watch the, “low cost housing” land rape on South Shore erode into the ocean, nice.

By: Trace Jamudian

Trace Jamudian — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:53:25 +0000

@bewildered—with respect to satalites-there is no such thing as air space in orbit. That is all free space.

By: Trace Jamudian

Trace Jamudian — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:47:16 +0000

Wake up little expandible desparate island of Bermuda. You are being blindly lead down a road that your gov. Knows nothing about or the possible repecussions and conseqences of.
You are one again being used by the deamonic US gov that seek to exploit your location and your desparation once again.
This is the same american gov that will stop at nothing to destroy the economic pillar of international business-that we are not good enough for in their eyes. Now its pretending to create a false flag economic pillar with this dangerous and sad excuse for economic cooperation. To them cooperation is layin down and taking it which ever way they decide to feed it to you.
Just like they did with the pollution at the annex US base and refused to pay for cleanup. Even rejecting court order to clean up. Now that piece of land is perpetually inaccessible to be used by bermudians…as if we have land to spare. The only people that benefited then was the uk and the us.
When nasa was here before they had weapons and equipment on island that could have potentially destroyed this entire island.
Now, look at types of gov organizations out of the us they intend to involve…MDS-missile defence? Unmaned arial vehicles? Orbital and suborbital rockets. And this is just what they choose to disclose…if america goes to more wars, which many more they will start in the next few years… Bermudas missile defence and unmaned arial vehicle aka drone sites and rocket control sites will be one of the easiest most accessible targets for her enemies. Bermuda with be cought in a cross fire of a war that it knows nothing about. To the usa we are simply collateral damage and an early warning signal that trouble is coming to us mainland. Jokes…these people that signed this have no idea of the evil they have welcomed our way.
The us is already destroying the fabric of our society with deliberate infiltration of guns and drugs in an effort to undermine our international business section systematically.
This is a bad idea…the the bad of this far out weight the good in this…a very bad trade off. Our politicians can’t see this because they have tunnel vision and will try to put anything in place right away without thought just to save face of their party…what’s the moto? Party before country…always. The have their heads stuck in a dark hole. Essentially blinding them and ultimately the whole island as they rep us; from the bigggg picture of world politics. We are living in dangerous times in the world. Bermuda is in this clear and present dangerous state right now due to lack of vision and due diligence from our so called blind leaders. Verily verily, I say on to you. Think I’m bsing? That’s ok. But time will tell. Just wait n see.
Time to wake up. Get real. The nightmare is coming.
Very sad.
Nice try gov. But this is a desparate move in my eyes.
You want rocket scientist but ur school system is in trouble ,d yo spend more on prisons than you do on education=destruction.

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:42:33 +0000

Please NASA, can you send our deputy leader to another planet? and if there is enough space(and you will need a lot of space) to include our so called Premier .

By: The Hell!!

The Hell!! — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:15:08 +0000

Two years of negotiations so this is why they cleaned it up not for the people of Bermuda but for NASA. Another example of a not so transparent government. I am not surprised.

By: Rummy

Rummy — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:23:29 +0000

Absolute rubbish.

No jobs will be created. Well maybe a few cleaning personel.

Who would they hire from local standards. Half of BIAW?

The area is not secure. Period.

Another fenced in?

Put it on Morgans Island. Sh!t there.

More crap from expired land owners.

By: Mad Dawg

Mad Dawg — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:20:39 +0000

Looks like the most beneficial things for Bermuda will be ‘educational outreach’ and ‘monitoring of shoreline erosion’.

That doesn’t cut it, frankly. After all the boondoggle trips to shuttle launches and Paris Satellite Confernces, we deserve a better return on the financial investment.

As recently as last September, PLP Minsters were touting this as a something that would become a “pillar of the economy, creating revenue and jobs”. I’m quoting Roban, September 8, 2011. As he was leaving for his all-expenses-paid trip to Paris, Roban said space was a $168bn market, and Bermuda could be a ‘one-stop-shop’ for space services.

Obviously, all those promises came to nothing, as usual with this lot. More years and expensive trips wasted.

By: rocket rides

rocket rides — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:04:53 +0000

good news. a tenant is a tenant and this is a good tenant.
one prospect might include a couple of rocket rides for a select few.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:30:43 +0000

Lots of politcal fluff. Very little substance. It is a mobile unit parked in storage someplace when not in use.

Nice to have NASA back but be honest about what it is for a change Minister.

By: Hmmmm

Hmmmm — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:27:27 +0000

No money in it , just data and educational opportunity. What jobs will be created? Two years and this is it.

By: all clogged up

all clogged up — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:46:24 +0000

hope that the Govt/BLDC attract more high tech projects, bio med, research park, instead of wasted prime realestate for unecessary public housing

By: Eastern

Eastern — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:18:55 +0000

I meant Turtle Beach!

By: Eastern

Eastern — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:17:45 +0000

Although I consider this good news, I’m wondering if it must be located at Cooper’s Island. Government has done a lot of work there to turn it into a nature reserve, while the public has made good use of the many beautiful beaches located there. Is this now going to return to the way it was prior to NASA leaving elevan years ago when Bermudians could only go as far as Turyle Beach while the rest of Cooper’s Island remained off limits?

By: Bewildered

Bewildered — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:41:01 +0000

This is excellent news. Well done Minister Burgess. This must be the third leg of the economy that has been talked about. Odd that no estimates of how many jobs will be created, or how much revenue it will produce. Come on, release this important information. Must be a lot bearing in mind Bermuda will receive a fee for each rocket that is tracked and each orbit taken by a satellite that passes through our airspace.