Opinion: Obama gets space funding right

Know ^ | 02/05/10 | Steven Weinberg

[KevinDavis]

In the federal budget released this week, President Barack Obama calls for increasing NASA’s funding by two percent while cutting its manned space flight program. If enacted by Congress, the cuts will likely end plans to return astronauts to the moon. Some claim these cuts will damage America’s capabilities in science and technology, but the president’s spending plan will likely boost both.

[KevinDavis]

What a Ching-wah TSAO duh liou mahng... It seems like that these jerks want use to pay for them to look at pretty pictures..

[KevinDavis]

For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net
For a list of Private Space Companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies

[Diogenesis]

Pushing the lie of Global Warming,
and setting up telescopes of any types
IS NOT SPACE EXPLORATION.

He is an idiot.
Nobel Prize endorsed, like Arafat and Obama.

[Kakaze]

Giving up on manned space flight doesn’t mean we have to give up on the exploration of the solar system.

Fat, dumb and happily remotely operating a probe from a dark walled in room is no substitute for the actual experience of a new frontier.

The powers that "be" do not want us off this rock,they fear what we will learn and that we would become independent..............uncontrollable.

[KevinDavis]

Exactly..

[jimtorr]

In my opinion, a great way for the feds to boost jobs would be to increase the NASA budget x10, and commit to a return to the moon in 5 years, with a permanent base in 8 years. Probably cheaper to build and more usefull that the ISS.

[KevinDavis]

or America taking the lead..

[Cacique]

Space exploration is a MILITARY application, science is just an afterthought. NASA was not fouinded to employ a bunch of snot nosed environmentalists. It was started so we could learnn to lob missiles at the USSR and to defend the country. These morons living in liberal caves think society is a suicide pact.

[Essie]

This guy has the vision of an ant. He and Obama want this country to be last in everything.

[SunkenCiv]

Partisan media shills at work, thanks KevinDavis, and thanks for all these as well:

• The future of science and human spaceflight
• No $1B Budget Increase for NASA; Fate of Ares 1 Rocket Still Unclear
• Report -- Obama to Propose NASA Budget with Smaller Than Expected Increase
• Global space exploration
• Alternate Space Capsule Concept Passes Tests
• NASA Budget Rollout Plans Taking Shape
• White House to outsource NASA work
• Obama aims to ax moon mission
• NASA tops off new Ares launch tower at the Cape
• No Moon Trips: Obama's Space Vision a 'Paradigm Shift'
• Space Frontier Foundation hails Ares' "death sentence"
• And now Sen. Bill Nelson blasts White House's space plan
• Ares dead? Obama officials say Constellation is a 'failed moon program,'
• India plans manned space mission in 2016
• America: Lost In Space
• Griffin's statement
• Obama's Conservative Space Policy
• Keep Humans Out of Space
• Good Night Moon
• Obama scraps Nasa Moon mission as U.S. president condemns 'Monopoly money' spending
• Coalition for Space Exploration Awaits Collaboration between the White House and Congress
• No Moon Missions, That's a Relief
• Bolden: We weren't headed to the moon until late next decade, if then
• Is Human Spaceflight Running Out of Time?
• Save Constellation Video
• New Robot Could Aid Astronauts in Space [s/b "replace astronauts in space"]
• NASA Pivots to a New Direction
• Abandoning human space flight is shortsighted
• Gen. Chuck Yeager Speaks Out Against Return To The Moon
• Utah Sen. Bennett: Ending Constellation space program a 'really dumb idea'
• Has Obama just handed the moon to China?
• Keep in shooting for the moon
• Don't scuttle space program
• President Barack Obama's budget grounds U.S. space program
• Moon Program Cut -- Real or More Obama Games?

Mars:

• China might explore other planets
• Buzz Aldrin Turns 80
• Let's Build a Stairway to Mars
• Human flight to Mars will be a global mission: ISRO
• Aldrin: 'Mars is the Next Frontier for Humankind'
• Ceding the moon, Mars to China

Private enterprise:

• Private Space Stations Edge Closer to Reality
• First Space Hotel Under Construction
• CSF Welcomes New NASA Human Spaceflight Plan, Congratulates Commercial Crew Development Winners
• Private firms see chance to soar in grounded Nasa
• SpaceX demonstrates cargo loading procedures for Dragon spacecraft
• Private industry in space a risky, slow business: experts

[Empireoftheatom48]

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