Perhaps to obtain new technology 
I am betting on private sector and American ingenuity. There is fifty years' worth of data out there to be utilized.
Obama, being the stupid communist many of us know him to be, shares the common progressive hostility to actual science, as opposed to the politicized kind.would happen to their plans for an “energy limited” Utopia with solar power satellites pumping out a few terawatts of power each 24/7/365, as opposed to their preferred “appropriate technology” surface receptors, which have a couple of small problems- called “night” and “the atmosphere”.
To say nothing of the hell that would ensue if NASA should inadvertently discover a controllable fusion system architecture that actually worked. (But as long as the likes of James Hansen are in the center seat, Greenpeace and ELF can rest easy- to say nothing of Stevie Chu.)
Finally, and this is the one they would cut their own throats rather than admit, as long as there are no independent, self-sustaining human colonies off Earth, the elitists have a gun to humanity’s head. “We have all sorts of ways to kill you, from bioweapons to politically-created famines to nukes. Don’t give us any trouble, or else.” They prate of their “love” of humanity, but it’s all BS; all they care about is power, and having everyone else under their thumbs.
Too bad there can't be one last launch: send Obozo into outer space.........
Well...I recently read that India was putting a monkey in orbit.
Are you taking donations for that last part?
But it seems to me, NASA is the absolute end commentary on bull warming (it's bigger'n Gore, but bull nonetheless ..)
Decades of photo's and galactic knowledge.
NASA had to go.
Great. Now America must rely on Russia for all our space needs.
Most of the people that I know that care about the space program are independents. They mourn the loss of the space program, they rightfully blame Obama, but they will vote for Obama in 2012.
It’s absolutely amazing to me.
At the time we were in Houston there was a shuttle at the ISS, but the website was sparse on that little fact in favor of a big push on sports. And, it wasn't like the emphasis was on astronauts needing to be fit to work in space, or the discipline of sports helping to develop discipline in other areas of life, or any other space theme. It had NOTHING to do with space exploration or man's place there.
Sick. Obama's legacy indeed.
The left is wrong on virtually every issue, NASA being just one of them. Seriously. Take any situation, ask a leftist what they think, then do the opposite. That’s the best way to succeed in this life and the hereafter.
No word on whether “outreach to Muslim nations” remains a NASA priority.
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true. but “Global Warming” under Hansen is.
despite their own measurements proving AGW and Greenhouse theory is false.
(NASA satellites show the complete absence of the necessary predicted atmospheric “hotspot”, and worse, show the earth has been COOLING since 2003, not getting warming.
in spite of “adjustments” always made to increase temps.)
Well, now that the exploration segment of the American space program is essentially a done deal, liberals can pick at NASA as the cash cow they’ve always thought it was. They can concentrate fully upon redirecting its charter to the role of self-esteem mentor for muslims, as envisioned by obama. How nice.
Much is said about America recapturing “greatness” as the leader in space exploration. Nations who elect marxist agitators to the highest office in the land are making the statement they don’t aspire to greatness.
We’ll see if there’s any flicker of desire in Americans’ hearts to recapture some of the old glory, come November 2012.
* NASA’s budget is being refocused on global warming *
In other words, NASA is now about Science Fiction instead of Science
Perhaps to obtain new technology
I am betting on private sector and American ingenuity. There is fifty years' worth of data out there to be utilized.