[Kickass Conservative]

My mistake, I though it said Mel Brooks.

[originalbuckeye]

I wonder if this is what Obama intended. After all, he did tell Medvedev that he would have more ‘flexibility’ after he won reelection n in 2012.

[rdcbn]

Who builds rockets better than Marshall Space Flight Center?

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The obvious answer is nobody build better rockets than Marshall Space Flight Center

Unfortunately, Marshall Space Flight Center is not building much in the way of rockets in these days where Obama Administrations NASA priorities are more Muslim outreach and transferring American Space technology to the rest of the world for free while basically killing off the domestic space industry

[BenLurkin]

“This is an issue we have to address if we are going to maintain America’s preeminence in space,”

So take one in stock and reverse engineer it. Build our own.

How hard can it be?

[Busko]

This is what happens when you have assclowns running our country into the ground.

[Boiler Plate]

Just how long have we been dependent on the Russians for rocket engines?

[LeoWindhorse]

I will never forgive him for cancelling the Space Shuttle program when all of the craft had many years of service life left in them . Unconscionable.

How long will we all pay for Obama’s follies ?

[wetphoenix]

AFAIK, Pratt&Whitney has a license to build RD-180 domestically and they even tried to make a few. The only defference is that Russian-delivered were about $10-11 million and P&W knock-off is around $40 million. BTW, LockMart and Boeing were both certified by Russian government to use these on it’s spacecraft.

[Paul R.]

Ironic, isn’t it? I’m not necessarily attacking Rep. Brooks, but more generally, politicians like Obama cry about outsourcing, and then look at what they themselves have outsourced...

[Timber Rattler]

Who builds rockets better than Marshall Space Flight Center?

How is Marshall Space Flight Center going to build rockets when the engineers and scientists who used to build them are now gone and the infrastructure dismantled?

It's the same story following Apollo...NASA has forgotten how to build Saturn V moon rockets.

The Lost Art of the Saturn V

[olezip]

"What you are seeing is the International Space Station and our military satellites have been caught up in a game of chess and the Russians are using them as pawns to sacrifice.

What you are seeing are the natural consequences of destroying your own capability for space flight. The Obama Administration stupidly took that risk because to them, NASA was not worth the money. They needed the money for Obamacare, to fight climate change, and other economy-destroying, socialistic endeavors.

We are getting the change the President promised.

[hattend]

What powered the Atlas before they started installing Russian engines?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tailgunner Joe, sidebars:

• Russia Will Cut Off US Access to the International Space Station Over Ukraine Sanctions

  [snip] The US currently pays Russia $60 million per person to ferry its astronauts to the space station [/snip] (that'll teach us!)

• Russian Proton rocket carrying advanced satellite crashes