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No I don’t think so, because the Asians are jumping onto the bandwagon!
If you ask me NASA funding should be done only when we have a budget surplus.
This is why that Congressman from Huntsville jumped from D to R. He’s going to have a lot of unemployed constituents on his hands.
American manned spaceflight is ending. This will mark the first time since 1958 the United states was not either actively working on a manned space flight program, currently operating a manned space flight program, or both.
Even when the last Skylab flight splashed down, the Space Shuttle program had been in active development for two years.
NASA has been working on putting men into space for over a half century. This September will mark the end of American manned space flight. A few weeks later will mark the 52nd anniversary of the approval of Project Mercury.
Oh, how the mighty will have fallen.
Fear not. First, this is just a going in position. Premier Hussein will find rabid Senators from production states in his path, and the fight will go on for a long, long time.
And even if this plan does triumph, there are commercial alternatives being worked on, and by competent people who don't have a lot of bureaucratic obstacles....like at Orbital and SpaceX.
Rockets are not that hard to build. Man rated capsules are even less hard, contrary to popular opinion. The Russians have been flying what amounts to modified diving bells for a long time, and doing it off a production line which can only be described as Troglodyte.
A modern production line will be able to pull it off quite easily. The hard part will be to pull in the horns, set a clear target, and aim for that: no more shuttles, with it's One Machine to Do Everything philosophy.
And someday maybe the voters in America will notice that this clown is upset about spending maybe 10% of the money he gave to AIG on NASA, and do something about it.
Obama is destroying our space program. This will ultimately weaken our country in ways that will be very difficult and expensive to remedy. We will be playing catch-up for decades with the Chinese, who have in the meantime stolen huge amounts of our technology with the help of certain politicians, and with India.
I hope not
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700006185/Rent-a-spacecraft-in-NASAs-future.html
Check that out. NASA is perhaps looking to the private sector to build and operate spacecraft for them.