[Chet 99]

With the exception of JFK, space exploration has never been popular with liberals. They’d rather this money be spent at home on welfare cheats and illegal aliens.

[CindyDawg]

Whattttttttt?

[quintr]

and themselves

[gundog]

JFK was a WW II hero and a Cold Warrior. I wouldn’t lump him in with the likes of his little brother, Edward.

[El Gato]

Well, that's change. Other high tech change will involve cancelation of many next generation military weapons systems. Wouldn't want the ChiComs and the Russians, never mind the Isalmist crazies, to be at too much of a disadvantage.

[SmokingJoe]

“They’d rather this money be spent at home on welfare cheats and illegal aliens”

Yup.
Whatever money is “saved” on the space program will promptly be wasted on welfare cheats,the gay agenda etc.

[EagleUSA]

They’d rather this money be spent at home on welfare cheats and illegal aliens.
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Of course. Space shuttles do not vote for DemoRATS. Anything that does not support the far left Dims will be compromised or shut off. INCLUDING THE MILITARY. (ala Carter and Clinton).

[reg45]

If you saw the excellent HBO mini series From The Earth to The Moon, that point was demonstrated by Walter Mondale, who wanted to scrap the entire Apollo Moon Program.

[Vince Ferrer]

JFK wasn't all that hot about space either, it was vice president Johnson that pushed the space program.

Cutting these programs is a drop in the bucket financially, and will have two big effects. First, we can't just keep sending up the shuttle until they all fail. We will just start using the Russians for access to space. This is a horrible national security move. And the biggest effect will be to eliminate very technical, very hard to replace knowledge carried by knowledgable employee's brains. By the time we want to return to these programs again, the people will have moved on to something else.

This is all coming just as we are starting to have valid economis reasons for returning to the moon, such as mining Helium-3.