[hopespringseternal]

His speech probably sounded great to the average person, but anyone with even a passing knowledge of space activity was left awfully confused. For people who know much about the subject it was a little incoherent.

For example, he talked about the crewed exploration vehicle, but made no mention of how to get it to orbit. He talked about retiring the shuttle, but made no mention of a new manned launcher. And NASA might be able to put a couple of urinals in the Johnson space center for the level of funding he is talking about.

And everything that will happen, even start to happen, will be after he leaves office. Unless he knows something about the next four elections the rest of us don't, this anouncement was just empty election year rhetoric.

[hopespringseternal]

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[RightWhale]

For people who know much about the subject it was a little incoherent.

Sure was, but this president seems to know more about science--or technology anyway--han any president since JFK. But at least NASA has a mission statement that involves possibly, someday, actual space travel. Travel to somewhere rather than just driving up and down our own driveway for 30 years. Let's go someplace.