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Obama aims to ax moon mission
Orlando Sentinel ^
| Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Posted on 01/27/2010 7:07:00 AM PST by rightcoast
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To: rightcoast
Anything to hurt America.
To: rightcoast
Yep. No dem voters on the moon, after all.
To: rightcoast
This is payback by Obama, pure and simple...
Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama famously switched his party to Republican, and his district includes Huntsville, AL, the home of Marshall Space Flight Center.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas gained notoriety from the Obama camp by endorsing Hillary Clinton's presidential run in 2008. Her district includes the home of Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX.
Rep. Suzanne Kosmas of Florida voted AGAINST the House health care bill, and she represents the FL district that encompasses Kennedy Space Center. Take a look at her picture on her House page, she has a shuttle there, for crying out loud!
To: rightcoast
Well, NASA thought they could kiss the press and the federal government's asses by embracing "climate change" as if that would ensure them continuing and generous funding.
Now, instead of going to the moon and then Mars, they get to measure the temperature of the stratosphere over Mongolia, and photograph mud flats of Brazil with prop planes.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:24:29 AM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: swain_forkbeard
The Chinese arent waiting, they’re laughing their asses off!...........
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:24:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
To: Spktyr
This is more bad news for NASA, especialy coming on the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire and one day before the 24th anniversary of the Challenger explosion.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:26:12 AM PST
by
NCC-1701
(ON 1-19-09 GAS WAS, ON AVERAGE IN MEMPHIS, $1.43 A GALLON.)
To: brownsfan
I have mixed emotions on this one. NASA has become an ineffective, politics dominated government agency. Funding them is throwing good money after bad.
But, when a nation quits striving, when it loses its dreams, its a ticket to 2nd world status. Seems to me, this is one of many signals the American era is coming to an end.
I really do not see it that way. Frankly, I see little use for NASA going to the moon. During the Space Race with the Russians there were military objectives involved. Also, space was a great unknown. The early space programs were like the explorations in the 15th - 16th centuries in which America was discovered and explored.
However, once the New World was discovered, and every inch of it mapped, there was no point in voyages of exploration. We've been to the Moon. It was important back then, but now that we've made several missions and discovered that it's really just a big rock in space, there is no point in spending taxpayer money to go there again. I agree we should continue striving, but we need to strive to do something that has never been done.
The only thing that gripes me about this is the the money being wasted on a redundant moon shot will be wasted instead on glo-bull warming.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:26:30 AM PST
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: NCC-1701
As I said before, I bet NASA is starting to regret having killed off the DC-X program.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:28:29 AM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: rightcoast
What a POS liar this bastard is. He came to the space coast with his goon in tow Biden 3 times and said he wasn’t going to slash it. YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: Sans-Culotte
The moon actually is of military importance, especially if you look at how the 21st century is shaping up. The moon is beyond the range of any existing terrestrial anti-satellite weapons, but a railgun or linear accelerator on the moon has a practically unlimited ammunition supply and can hit any spot on the planet Earth.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:32:18 AM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: pieceofthepuzzle
This is exemplary of what many academic supporters of the left have failed to anticipate. Even though leftist candidates express support for science and research, in reality their policies bankrupt government and inevitably they also lead to a significant reduction in available funding for science and research. Many will counter that fiscally conservative candidates would do the same. Most of the leftist academics I've met are dogmatically leftist to the point of intellectual corruption.
There is some issue of whether the rationale for the research was honestly presented anyway. We are socially acquainted with some of scientists who sit on the NSF review committees. They wear their leftist bias like a badge of honor.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:32:26 AM PST
by
no-s
(B.L.O.A.T. and every day...because some day soon they won't be making any more...for you.)
To: Spktyr
The Russians also believe in weaponizing space... And probably will get to the moon before we go there again.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:32:37 AM PST
by
Thunder90
(Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
To: rightcoast
Barry cant be the Moon and stars to everyone if he has a rival...
To: rightcoast
In the meantime, the White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects principally, researching and monitoring climate change
Obama really is a visionary leader.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:34:50 AM PST
by
DariusBane
(Even the Rocks shall cry out "Hobamma to the Highest")
To: rightcoast
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:35:56 AM PST
by
chuck_the_tv_out
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To: brownsfan
America does not need NASA to dream or look forward.
Do you think supporters of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln were thinking, “Dang, if only we had a NASA to get us to the Moon?”
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:37:51 AM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
To: ConservativeMind
Part of the problem is that NASA and the Feds make it very difficult for ‘unapproved’ space ventures to go forwards and that they’ve actively engaged in sabotage of several likely ventures over the last couple of decades. The Feds *want* to have a monopoly on US space travel.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:40:27 AM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: dead
In honesty Ares I and especially Ares V were extremely bad designs, requiring very long lead times and having enormous development costs and upkeep costs. They were a "Designed by Committee" spaceship and their demise will not cause me any tears.
What bothers me is that they are being scrapped and no new ship is being built. We could have built DIRECT and been flying again at a fraction of the cost in four or five years. But by letting things go cold you lose all of your trained personnel and existing facilities. We will never be able to afford a start over from scratch space program.
It is not just the loss of the moon that is an issue here. But when the last shuttle flys later this year, it will represent the last time Americans will fly into space aboard an American rocket. We will no longer be a space capable nation.
We could stay in space for the cost of the commercials spent on the Superbowl. But hey who cares American Idol is on. Perhaps we should have a new song for Obama.
Rockets on the ground
Rockets on the ground
Looking like a fool
With your rockets on the ground.
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posted on
01/27/2010 7:40:32 AM PST
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Sans-Culotte
Do you have ANY idea what this is going to do to the local economy? We have already had 15% of business close in the area and projections are if the moon and mars programs go under and get axed that we will lose 55% of businesses and home value’s will stay where they are or sink even further.
I live here...I watched this man tell everyone around here to vote for him because he was going to keep it in his budget.
NO F-CKING WAY HE WINS FLORIDA IN 2010 in the mid-terms or in 2012 when he looks to be re-hired.
To: rightcoast
Good. For the wrong reasons, but good.
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