"To the moon Barry!"
Posted on 01/29/2010 10:50:58 AM PST by Marcus
Jeff Foust, who blogs for Space Politics, whose subject matter is self explanatory, asks a very pertinent question about President Obama's plans for NASA, which include cancelling the space exploration program.
Who, in Congress, will actually support it?
(Excerpt) Read more at associatedcontent.com ...
By canceling plans to go back to the moon, 0bama is doing the only thing he is good at - undermining America. This forfeits our place as the technology and innovation leader in the world, not to mention the thousands of jobs in aerospace and NASA.
NASA bashing to commence in 3, 2, 1....
And yet he continues to crow about math and science education. Why should anyone pursue a technical education if it is useless in terms of future employment? Engineering is a helluva lot more work than the undergraduate program Obama (supposedly) went through.
This is an easy one. It’s about “Whitey on the Moon”
Agreed.
I know I am a broken record on this but....
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history.
Obama is a very dangerous president to this nation.
Yes I am all for private industry tackling some tasks. But not all, that is just part of the equation.
America must lead on the frontiers as a nation as well, not a company.
Hey, Zero’s doing his level best to kill the American Dream, what are a few more dreams for him ??
Can’t have those infidels desecrating his god, can he?
Count me as a no Moon vote.
Let future exploration come from the private sector. If there is something of value on it below all that dust, let entrepreneurs find it, figure out a way to bring it back, and profit from it. That’s the American way.
Long ago when I learned there were no Moon Maidens there, just gray rocks and gray dust that did it for me. Lets move on. Where are the Orion slave girls from?
“NASA bashing to commence in 3, 2, 1....”
Yes, and it’s usually the same ol crowd that seems to think NASA is nothing but a bloated federal agency that consumes huge sums of moneys to study global warming and produce Tang.
It’s disugusting the ingnorance level at times and it’s shocking to find it here on FreeRepublic.
I have never found a single one that has been able to articulate why exactly such a tiny percentage of federal spending with massive spinoffs and payoffs for the nation is a bad idea.
They point to stumbles and scream failure.
Yet I see none of them building a damn thing or risking their asses to better mankind.
The Moon Maidens are on the dark side of the moon...
Find a copy of the video “Old Negro Space Program” online and have a good laugh.
"To the moon Barry!"
OMG I would love to hear Palin’s first inaugural address say “I am re-instating the NASA moon program and we will land there within 3 years”
One last thing to do ~ send Obama to the Moon ~ ostensibly to apologize to Islam for “messin’ with the crescent”.
I realize that a lot of benefit comes out of endeavors at the edge and constant innovation, but NASA does not typify and has not typified this for quite a while. With a 14 trillion dollar debt, we can ill afford hemorraging expenditures like this as well as many of the others this adminstration will expend in the next three years. Flame if you want, but experience tells me better.
Human spaceflight is a passion of mine, getting back to the moon.. TO STAY, and beyond is something I want to live to see. This nation is born of the pioneer spirit and risk takers. It DOES live on at NASA even with bureaucracy wrapped around it like ropes. I have already donated to NSS, written every rep I have. It's just another thing to oppose OBama on now. The man is disgusting! there is NOTHING about him I can bring myself to approve of. Nothing. He is killing our nation on every level to some degree.
"It is because of this spirit – this great decency and great strength – that I have never been more hopeful about America's future than I am tonight. Despite our hardships, our union is strong. We do not give up. We do not quit."----------
"Next, we need to encourage American innovation. Last year, we made the largest investment in basic research funding in history – an investment that could lead to the world's cheapest solar cells or treatment that kills cancer cells but leaves healthy ones untouched. And no area is more ripe for such innovation than energy. You can see the results of last year's investment in clean energy – in the North Carolina company that will create 1200 jobs nationwide helping to make advanced batteries; or in the California business that will put 1,000 people to work making solar panels."
----------
"Meanwhile, China's not waiting to revamp its economy. Germany's not waiting. India's not waiting. These nations aren't standing still. These nations aren't playing for second place. They're putting more emphasis on math and science. They're rebuilding their infrastructure. They are making serious investments in clean energy because they want those jobs.
Well I do not accept second-place for the United States of America."
----------
"We have finished a difficult year. We have come through a difficult decade. But a new year has come. A new decade stretches before us. We don't quit. I don't quit."
-PJ
Then you should support the new policy. It's a lot more likely to meet that goal than Constellation ever was.
Rather she push for the F22.
What we'll get from NASA is more of what we've had for the last 25 years.
Lots of lip service about manned space exploration. (BTW - the shuttle "explores" nothing)
Lots of consulting contracts spread around to various congressional districts.
Lots of design studies that never get launched.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
how about both!
cut some stupid ‘diversity’ program to fund it
If she got rid of Health and Human Services, we could have both, and then some!
The Kenyan would do well to read President Reagan's speech to the nation on the day Challenger exploded.
Because I fail to find in the powers enumerated to Congress the right to run a space program that does what ours does.
Research related to defense would be fine.
Leaving the earth, stepping foot on another body, and returning home is awesome. Cool as all heck. But if I support the federal government doing something it has no authority to do just because I think it's cool, I have to support them doing anything they darn well please. We either follow the rules or we don't.
The fact that it is a tiny percentage of the budget is irrelevant.
The fact that there are supposed returns (I say supposed, because it's entirely possible that private enterprise would have come up with all the same stuff or better if the federal government wasn't in the way) is irrelevant.
Look up spinoffs the benefits are manifold and easily found. It’s all around your home, your car, your work, your hospital. Discoverys come when we do things nobody has ever done before. Private industyr is out to make a buck, I celebrate that, but it is not out necessarily to keep America strategically positioned in the future. The quarterly report doesn’t work that way.
Not to mention the MASSIVE inspiration that elevates our nation to a level next to no other. To excel and pursue engineering and math as careers.
Again...
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history.
It is NOT irrelevant it is a tiny portion of federal spending, because it gives back orders of magnitude more then it takes.
Wake up.
Look up spinoff technologies and the massive scientific discoverys that NASA has made. Reframing how we look at the universe, breaking through barriers and inspring like no other agency on earth.
Yes, even BADLY managed by political tinkering over the years, NASA is STILL the best bang for the buck.
Again, I will say it until I am blue in the face..
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history.
Isn’t that worth a tiny portion of the federal budget?????
I thought the Bamster just planned to lay the rocket on it’s side and call it a bullet train.
If it's set up as prize awards for achievements by space entrepreneurs, yes.
But into the NASA rathole, no.
You’ve got tunnel vision, you only see half of the equation.
Yes, it is. The amount of spending, whether relative or absolute, makes NO difference. Either the federal government is limited to what powers the Constitution grants it, or it is allowed to do anything it wants to.
Likewise, it makes no difference what the return on investment is. I'm not willing to grant the federal government the "right" to do things it was never authorized to do just because it has a positive (in theory) ROI.
Exploration of space is quite possibly one of the very few things that a federal government could do more efficiently than private enterprise. And it's really, really, cool. But until the Constitution is amended to allow the federal government to do so, most of what NASA does is illegal, and regardless of how cool it is to me I oppose it.
Jeez dude, saying NASA is illegal isn’t going to sell anywhere, frankly it’s pretty fringe and it’s a new one to me.
Read more carefully, I did not say that that NASA is illegal, but that most of what it does is illegal. If it’s not allowed by the Constitution, the federal government can not do it. I don’t understand why this is so difficult for so many people to accept.
I understand it fine, it’s simply not politically realisitic to pursue that path since it is an extremely strict constitutional view that very few will ever share.
Besides, NASA would be the least of your worries even if people did.
People confuse 1970 NASA with 2010 NASA. Same name, but they are as different as FedEx and the Post Office.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.