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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I’m was/am against the ISS. All that money should have gone to establish a base on the moon.
... 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.
He is afraid we will find his REAL birthplace.
HA!
11,537.2474747475 miles or once through and 3,610.6946887475 miles through again.
Ridiculous
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.
Same reason I quit the Planetary Society. I had been a member for 23 years or so.
Brilliant, simply brilliant.
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