Posted on 04/10/2010 11:01:49 AM PDT by Marcus
Keith Yost, writing in the MIT Tech, has perhaps inadvertently revealed the real motivation behind the Obama space plan. Keith Yost likes the Obama new approach to space, but not for the reasons that most supporters articulate.
Most supporters of Obamaspace maintain that the cancellation of the Constellation space exploration program will actually lead to more, better, and cheaper space exploration at some indeterminate time in the future. The idea is that the research and development program proposed under Obamaspace will lead to "game changing" technology that will open up new ways to explore space that some future President will use to—say—send astronauts to Mars. Critics, on the other hand, counter that without a specific destination, with a timetable and a deadline, the R&D program will be directionless and will not lead to anything, even if it is funded by the Congress.
Keith Yost sees this not as a bug but as a feature.
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The radical libs have always hated the space program. This is nothing new. It won’t get better until AFTER 2012.
NASA should stick with the space program and stop doing the dirty jobs for the administration.
the ONE PLACE where I would not mind more govt spending (but privatize the agancy so it is more efficient) and this bozo cuts it
He could finance a trip to the moon next year with what h wasted on the porkulus pacakage, increase national pride 1000% , create tons of new jobs, and actually be a hero....
but the dumbASS would rather kill the economy and implement godawful socialism
I hope he lives long enough to be known as a horrible failure that he is
It has been my opinion that R&D took a severe hit when the collider in Texas was not only canceled, but the tunnel was filled in with concrete. The messages were clear. No Republican president would be allowed to restart the program. Spending for R&D, in the United States, would be severely limited.
Obama’s latest charade reinforces that tenet.
While we’re on the subject, moving our manufacturing off shore was not the way to increase R&D in the United States. A percentage of our R&D has moved to China. Where manufacturing takes place, R&D will exist.
We’ve signed on to mediocrity for some time now.
He could move every welfare freeloader to the moon with what he has spent.
And conservatives as well. Nothing but a waste of taxpayer money.
Build a warp drive, then we'll talk. Otherwise..no more moon rocks. Ever.
Fire Hansen first, then lets talk money.
You’re pathetic.
I think we are at the point where there can be no sacred cows. We need to cut funding on everything. At least 5% cuts across the board.
Most research and development dollars will go to technology, not basic science. This then will be the future of NASA. A single project like asteroid mining could pay off our national debt and give us an abundance of rare and valuable metals. Just one asteroid, called 433 Eros, which is only 12 miles by 8 miles in size, is believed to have more of several metals than exist in the entire crust of the Earth.
Yes, both the civilians and the govt employees need their jobs.
NASA was good when the Germans ran it.
“Our Germans are better than their Germans.”
NASA’s priorities are being realigned to support GW theories, so I’d just as soon pull the plug on them. This is not the NASA of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s.
NASA was great 1960 - 1985. But since then, programs like the Space Shuttle and ISS have just wasted billions and billions and billions of dollars.
Great argument.
With those two words you've just convinced all of us that it's essential for NASA, an ineffecient government agency, to receive tax funds for nonessential, non-defense programs during this economic depression.
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If NASA’s budget is cut, how will that nice Mr. Hansen save the planet from global change and climate warming and whatever?
And conservatives as well. Nothing but a waste of taxpayer money.
Build a warp drive, then we’ll talk. Otherwise..no more moon rocks. Ever.
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The money spent on the U.S. space program is but a mere micro-fraction compared to the waste on pork spending, welfare, wars, and now BO’s multi-generational catastrophic socialism. Do the math.
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