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The Obama Legacy in Planetary Exploration
Space.com ^ | January 04, 2014 | Mark V. Sykes

Posted on 01/06/2014 9:19:21 AM PST by Farnsworth

It is frustrating, at a time when other nations are in ascendancy in space, that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama seems committed to undermining the nation's own solar system exploration program.

The Obama administration cut NASA's planetary-sciences budget by 20 percent in 2013. It has taken the National Research Council's (NRC) recommendations for prioritizing planetary investments in bad economic times and turned those recommendations upside down. The administration continues to favor large, directed projects at the expense of programs and missions that are openly competed.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: asteroids; budget; jupiter; kbo; kuiperbelt; mars; mercury; moon; nasa; neptune; obama; planetaryscience; pluto; saturn; sls; spaceexploration; spacelaunchsystem; uranus; venus
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To: cripplecreek

I’m was/am against the ISS. All that money should have gone to establish a base on the moon.


21 posted on 01/06/2014 9:43:05 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
... committed to undermining the nation's own solar system exploration program. The Obama administration cut NASA's planetary-sciences budget by 20 percent in 2013.
In 2014 some NASA committee will issue recommendations on which orbital telescopes will be discontinued. Thanks Farnsworth.
22 posted on 01/06/2014 9:54:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Farnsworth

He is afraid we will find his REAL birthplace.


23 posted on 01/06/2014 9:56:28 AM PST by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: MestaMachine

HA!


24 posted on 01/06/2014 10:02:03 AM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: Graewoulf

11,537.2474747475 miles or once through and 3,610.6946887475 miles through again.

Ridiculous


25 posted on 01/06/2014 10:56:07 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Bill Nye will sort it all out.

Genuine hilarity. Laughing 'til I pee blood.

"The Science Guy," so celebrated by the politically brain-dead Planetary Society, completely sold out to the Climate Alarmists.

That's why Harrison Schmidt resigned, so eloquently, late in '08.

26 posted on 01/06/2014 1:36:47 PM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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27 posted on 01/07/2014 1:37:04 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Prospero

Same reason I quit the Planetary Society. I had been a member for 23 years or so.


28 posted on 01/07/2014 7:10:47 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: clearcarbon

Brilliant, simply brilliant.


29 posted on 01/07/2014 11:24:30 AM PST by messierhunter
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