"This photo should tell every American all they need to know about barack hussein obama."
Posted on 02/09/2010 8:41:08 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares
"You can't be a great country without doing great things and a great thing would be to return to the Moon and build a laboratory there and open it up to the world," Hickam said on Tuesday's MetroNews Talkline.
Hickam says he's angry about the cut.
"It's really a foolish decision to take away the goal of going back to the Moon. I can certainly see figuring out a better way of doing it, but simply to take away the goal, I think, is so shortsighted and so foolish that it's almost breathtaking in its stupidity."
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His entire life, is an example of what is so great about America. And why America must plan to do great things and inspire our young!
Is it surprising that Obama would tear down NASA like he is tearing down the rest of the nation?????
Breathtaking in it's stupidity indeed!
Correction became the film October Sky.
Every day presents us with another new book title for a history if the Obama administration.
This is what happens when you have children running the White House.
I’ve heard we’re going to have to hitch a ride with Russia in order to get to the space station.
USA - World Super Power - I think not!
Barack Hussein Obamah is no JFK !! bump
Oh, let’s quit beating around the BUSH, this was all
about doing away with any chance of GWB being put down
in the history books as a visionary, some one who
advanced mankind by moving off planet.
Obama will make his mark in history right along side
Carter and Clinton as the trio that were most destructive
of American Ideals, and way of life, the world is
a worse place for their doing it.
The writer is naive if he believes Obama sees America as a 'great country'. Nor does he want it to accomplish great things.
It is a big factor I am sure.
They are mad with Bush hatred and wish to destroy anything he even breathed on.
Equal, only, to the number of them.
The United States Government in its current condition will NEVER return to the Moon. The private sector will have to do the heavy lifting, and guess who is going to get in the way of that?
>> The United States Government in its current condition will NEVER return to the Moon. The private sector will have to do the heavy lifting, and guess who is going to get in the way of that? <<
Well said the liberal argument that they want to privatize space exploration is nothing more than double speak for,
“We will privatize space exploration, but once someone even dreams about making a profit off of it we will swoop in and tax and regulate space exploration to death.”
You want a moon base, just pass a simple law, “No Taxes to be paid by any company who can establish a permanent and sustained residence on the moon”
Lockhead and Boeing would be there tomorrow....
It was actually smart, if Obama’s goal is to make sure Americans have little reason to be proud of their country (just like Mrs. Obama).
The moon shot was a great moment for America.
Of course Obama despises that.
Part of the reason Obama won Florida was because of his promises to Senator Nelson and the folks over at NASA and in Brevard and Volusia county.
YOU LIE B.O.
>> I agree with everything there, even opening up global labs but I would go further. I would also want to see labs that belong strictly to America and her closest allies. If it weren’t for that stinking outer space treaty I would invite private companies to stake their claims as well. <<
UN out of US, UN out of space!
I've read that Lockheed Martin on their own initiative is still working on VentureStar, a single stage to orbit rocket plane. We need to innovate to replace the Shuttle with what it promised to be 40 years ago but never was, safe, efficient, and with a quick turnaround time. A suborbital rocket plane would also be a tremendous asset to our military, and possibly a market booster for passenger and cargo transportation (remember Reagan's Orient Express?).
W's Moon program was a grandstanding political move by a Luddite president, which probably would have done more to kill off NASA than save it.
How can repeating what we did over 40 years ago be visionary?
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