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Obama kills U.S. manned space program
Fox News Channel | 1/29/10

Posted on 01/29/2010 6:55:59 AM PST by pabianice

Per a NASA spokesman, Obama has killed the country's manned space program by cutting all funding for it. The Constellation program was to be the next manned space program to send people back to the Moon and build a Moon base, then to send astronauts to Mars. Obama wants the money for increased spending on his constituants. Killing the Constellation Program means the $9B already spent is down the drain and an estimated 4,600 jobs will have been ended.


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1 posted on 01/29/2010 6:55:59 AM PST by pabianice
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Obama is monumentally stupid.


2 posted on 01/29/2010 6:57:30 AM PST by SatinDoll (NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
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To: pabianice

How is that going to affect employment in the Houston area?


3 posted on 01/29/2010 6:57:35 AM PST by jersey117
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I guess Obama’s the anti-JFK.


4 posted on 01/29/2010 6:57:45 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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I think his Jobs Program really sucks.


5 posted on 01/29/2010 6:58:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We have the 1st so that we can call on people to rebel. We have 2nd so that they can.)
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To: pabianice
The man thinks his approval rating is his golf score.

He's trying to get it as low as possible.

6 posted on 01/29/2010 6:58:51 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: pabianice

Nothing like handing the high ground to China.


7 posted on 01/29/2010 6:59:01 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: pabianice

We really are a nation in decline.

Perhaps he’ll use the money saved on some jobs program.

Did PBS get the ax too?


8 posted on 01/29/2010 6:59:43 AM PST by Sparky1776
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I guess he wants to kill the space program and take that money to pay for his new high-speed trains. Go figure.


9 posted on 01/29/2010 7:00:25 AM PST by nolongerademocrat
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Where does he get the authority to do this?


10 posted on 01/29/2010 7:00:55 AM PST by raybbr
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Typical Marxist/Populist solution; Rob from Peter to pay Paul.

I’ll bet those Liberal weenies at NASA who voted for him are sure sorry now.


11 posted on 01/29/2010 7:01:55 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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It’s for the children and a sacrifice. High speed trains that no one will ride are much more important and besides it makes us look just like European nations.


12 posted on 01/29/2010 7:02:36 AM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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He’s not killing NASA’s sattelitte program so they can keep the global warming fraud going tho.


13 posted on 01/29/2010 7:03:46 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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Way back in the beginning people would note that Obama probably had some problems with folks sending rockets to the Moon because he was a Moslem.

They were laughed at and ridiculed.

So, when Obama's first independent budgeting action is to cancel everything related to sending rockets to the Moon..................

14 posted on 01/29/2010 7:04:12 AM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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Naw. The ‘saved’ money will just go into the pockets of his Chi-town shakedown buddies.


15 posted on 01/29/2010 7:04:17 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: jersey117
Obama Plan Privatizes Astronaut Launchings

'But the changes have angered some members of Congress, particularly from Texas, the location of the Johnson Space Center, and Florida, the location of the Kennedy Space Center.'

16 posted on 01/29/2010 7:05:07 AM PST by Palter (Kilroy was here.)
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The ironic thing is that Florida voted for this bum. I read somewhere this decision may cost up to 5,000 jobs in the KSC area alone. I hope they're happy with their choice. Senator Bill Nelson, where are you? Elections have consequences.

And that's not even counting other NASA locations around the country and at contractors. We're turning our backs on territory we've explored and staked out. Kind of like Lewis and Clark coming back and finding out that gee, the country decided, we don't need to explore the West. Nothing there but mountains and trees and beavers and Indians. Much better to spend our money "here at home" on the East Coast.

What a bunch of stupid chumps.

17 posted on 01/29/2010 7:05:23 AM PST by chimera
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Obama wants highspeed rail between Chicago and Detroit.

His budget forgot to include the funds necessary to build the link across Indiana.

You think this guy and his third rate staffers are stupid, you ain't seen nothin' yet ~ he's bringing in his fourth rate bench!

18 posted on 01/29/2010 7:06:11 AM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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He cannot do this unilaterally. Congress has to agree.


19 posted on 01/29/2010 7:06:19 AM PST by La Lydia
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Just emailed my friend who is working on this project in Huntsville... I hope this isn’t true.

NO MANNED SPACE TRAVEL MEANS WE WILL HAVE TO RELY ON OTHER COUNTRIES FOR SATELLITE REPAIR???


20 posted on 01/29/2010 7:08:23 AM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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