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President Barack Obama's budget grounds U.S. space program
straight.com ^ | 02/03/10 | Doug Sarti

Posted on 02/05/2010 5:52:35 PM PST by KevinDavis

That giant sucking sound you just heard was the end of the U.S. space program as we know it.

On Monday (February 1), U.S. President Barack Obama released his proposed fiscal year 2011 budget, which includes a three-year moratorium on non-military discretionary spending. In an effort to turn the tide of a projected deficit of US$1.27 trillion, the White House is also looking to slash spending in a number of government departments and programs.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: space

1 posted on 02/05/2010 5:52:35 PM PST by KevinDavis
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To: Mr Fuji; ThomasSawyer; kronos77; DesScorp; Tuketu; BattleHymn; Squawk 8888; Dimez_Recon; ...


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2 posted on 02/05/2010 5:53:21 PM PST by KevinDavis (Ad Astra Per Aspera!!!)
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To: KevinDavis

FYI, The Georgia Straight is the de facto leftie-commie publication in Vancouver, BC. I know. I’m from there, and they hate anything American. Use another source for future refs, if possible for your sci-fi posts.


3 posted on 02/05/2010 5:55:46 PM PST by max americana
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To: KevinDavis

Tough luck. NASA employees love Dem Bill Nelson and the Cape Canaveral House members is Suzanne Kosmas who is a Dem. Keep votin Demo gubmint workers.


4 posted on 02/05/2010 5:55:57 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: Frantzie

You would be surprised to see the number of Obama bumper stickers in the SMDC (U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command)parking lot...


5 posted on 02/05/2010 5:59:11 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Lots? ACORN paper pushers. Where is SMDC?

NASA is work program like the post office. Von Braun never ran it like that.


6 posted on 02/05/2010 6:00:37 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: Frantzie
Huntsville, Al...

One would be one too damn many!

7 posted on 02/05/2010 6:02:25 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: KevinDavis

He is no JFK!


8 posted on 02/05/2010 6:02:34 PM PST by cruise_missile
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To: KevinDavis

Congress has to write the budget, they might just decide to save it.


9 posted on 02/05/2010 6:05:51 PM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: KevinDavis
This cannot be allowed to happen. The race to Mars is now officially on, and the potential prize is too big.

Once again for anybody who hasn't been paying attention for the last dozen years, the images are unambiguous:

The two long sides of that thing are a mile and a half or thereabouts.

Other structures in the same region show similar features:

NASA can no longer remain in denial about this stuff with a race on and the United States cannot afford for Russia or China to get the first look at whatever's inside these things.

10 posted on 02/05/2010 6:12:22 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: gov_bean_ counter

They like getting that gubmint “cheese.” PRobably ACORN paper pushers and a few advanced degree idiots with no commonsense.


11 posted on 02/05/2010 6:20:08 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: wendy1946

Ahh...what are you talking about? The country is broke - it ain’t gonna happen. NASA became the climate change whores and propagandists.

NASA really let the Trekkers down.


12 posted on 02/05/2010 6:26:06 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: KevinDavis

Wow, pretty soon we’ll have the math and science skills of a muslim country.


13 posted on 02/05/2010 6:31:07 PM PST by rabidralph ("Precedenting" is a lot tougher than community organizing.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Soon they will just be remnants of former bumper stickers.

LLS

14 posted on 02/05/2010 7:09:28 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: wendy1946

don’t get it...what is it I’m supposed to see here?


15 posted on 02/05/2010 7:27:45 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage

Equilateral triangles on a two mile scale for one thing. Nature does not do perfect triangles on that scale.


16 posted on 02/05/2010 11:39:33 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: Frantzie
The country is “broke” for numerous reasons - the biggest is the massive entitlement program - 60% of the entire budget - NASA, like everyone else in the discretionary category, fights over the crumbs.

NASA went out of the manned space exploration business in 1974. All else after was just to keep constituents happy.

17 posted on 02/06/2010 5:41:24 AM PST by PIF
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To: rabidralph

“Wow, pretty soon we’ll have the math and science skills of a muslim country.”

Pretty soon we’ll be a muslim country and have the math and science skills of other muslim countries. Also we’ll have those wonderful dusty villages which Hussein so dearly adores.


18 posted on 02/06/2010 5:44:37 AM PST by PIF
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To: dsrtsage

“don’t get it...what is it I’m supposed to see here?”

Nothing... move along.


19 posted on 02/06/2010 5:45:16 AM PST by PIF
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To: Frantzie

The Kennedy Space Center resides in Brevard County, which historical votes Republican. Posey is also a representative for the south part of the county and you won’t find very many congresscritters that are as conservative as he is. As for Kosmos, I believe she is against Obama’s plan for NASA and voted against Obamacare.

It has been my experience that most engineers and technical folks are conservatives...not all but most....to say that NASA is like most “gubmint workers” is painting with too wide a brush.


20 posted on 02/06/2010 8:26:35 AM PST by June2
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