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Bolden: We weren’t headed to the moon until late next decade, if then
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 02/01/10

Posted on 02/01/2010 7:18:46 PM PST by KevinDavis

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden has put out 10 pages of remarks over President Barack Obama’s budget request for his agency — and he’s predictably enthusiastic.

He’s full of praise for the possibilities of research into new gee-whiz technologies that could get people to Mars in “weeks instead of years,” new Earth Science satellites and making full use of the International Space Station as a place to do cutting-edge research in space.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.orlandosentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: space
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To: backwoods-engineer

Hopefully someone can find them. It was inspirational for me too.


21 posted on 02/01/2010 11:29:23 PM PST by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

“I want the next trip to the moon to be a private venture.”

And the next private venture by Americans may be - in a Chinese craft, to a Chinese lunar colony, to beg for consessions from a PLA controled Chinese company.

Other than that forgetaboutit.


22 posted on 02/02/2010 4:19:17 AM PST by PIF
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To: PIF

If there is no value in going to the moon, then private business won’t try to go there.

I don’t see where in the constitution it says the federal government can spend billions of dollars on exploration, no matter how cool it is.

The first time, it was about national defense — or at least you could justify it as critical to our national defense.

I love the idea of my country being the first to explore things, I just don’t know where the constitution makes that the job of our government. Sometimes the constitution stands in MY way of what I would love to see, just as it stands in the way of others who want government to overstep it’s bounds.

That’s why we have the constitution, to stop government from doing any old thing a majority of the people think would be cool.


23 posted on 02/02/2010 6:17:40 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Of course you are an anti nasa troll, since you are using one of there more popular arguements on FR. Does not matter whether you are consevative or not.

And BTW it is more than ever a matter of national defence, unless you speak Chinese and are working for the PLA, of course.


24 posted on 02/02/2010 7:09:41 AM PST by PIF
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