Posted on 02/25/2009 5:28:50 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares
The fiscal 2010 NASA budget outline to be released by the Obama Administration Feb. 26 adds almost $700 million to the out-year figure proposed in the fiscal 2009 budget request submitted by former President Bush, and sticks with the goal of returning humans to the moon by 2020.
The $18.7 billion that Obama will request for NASA - up from $18.026 billion for fiscal 2010 in the last Bush budget request - does not include the $1 billion NASA will receive in the $787 billion stimulus package that President Barack Obama signed Feb. 16.
Aviation Week has learned that in addition to the human-lunar return, Obama wants to continue robotic exploration with probes to Mars and other Solar System destinations, as well as a space telescope to probe deeper into the universe.
He will request increases in Earth Science, in keeping with his call Feb. 24 for action on global warming. And he will ask for additional funds for the NextGen satellite-based air traffic control modernization effort within NASA's aeronautics request.
In addition to those newly requested funds, under the stimulus package the space agency will receive $400 million for back-to-the-moon exploration work; $400 million for science directed at climate-change space missions and the supercomputing capability needed for climate modeling; $150 million for aeronautics, including NextGen, and $50 million for repairs to hurricane damage suffered in 2008.
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The Bush goal for American crewed return to moon stays for now.
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history.
China and India are breathing down our necks on this soon.
I just wish Bush had mooned The One (piss be upon him) when he had the chance.
Bush returned vision to our floundering space program.
Good...we may all have to live there soon after Obama destroys America!
Maybe OB1 can go and stay there!
Seems to me that we’ve figured out how to go to the moon. I have yet to hear from anyone a simple reason for NASA to send anyone back to the moon, much less a plan for what they are supposed to do on the moon once they get there apart from collecting rocks. If we have to re-learn how to go to the moon, I think that says more about the state of public education down here in the contiguous 48 than it does about NASA’s goals should be. In terms of science value-to-cost, what they’re doing with unmanned missions makes a lot more sense. But even in that case, you can’t make an economic argument for anything beyond unmanned satellites in geosynchronous orbit, especially now.
It was a waste of money when Bush suggested it and it is now. NASA is run like the US Post Office. NASA will become an even bigger disaster and waste of money.
He is pushing another trillion to fix healthcare on top of the other trillion stimulus on top of the trillion for free homes who people who do not want to pay their mortgage. The country is going to go broke.
Disagree strongly.
Though not perfect, NASA is one of the more necessary endeavors of government, for strategic purpose of positioning this nation in ways that private industry cannot always can.
The country is going broke and Obama will destroy it by the end of 2009. Going to the moon is another waste. NASA was good when Von Braun ran it.
No thanks to Obama...
If they locate water ice on the moon then they will have a source of fuel (electrolysis of the H2O makes Hydrogen fuel and Oxygen oxidizer) I believe that they have located bauxite or alumina for structural metals.
An electric rail gun could fire materials & fuel pod into Moon orbit for assembly into a Mars or beyond spaceship.
Again,
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history. China and India understand this.
NASA is a tiny portion of the federal budget.
You could cancel it tomorrow and it would solve nothing.
(Sam Kinnison, screaming at the camera)
Sure does, but Obama seems intent on keeping all of W's bad ideas. Maybe because they require so much government spending and waste.
Even so, with all the infrastructure and conveniences of Earth, Earth launches will much more economical for decades if not centuries.
An electric rail gun could fire materials & fuel pod into Moon orbit for assembly into a Mars or beyond spaceship.
Manned missions to Mars and beyond are another bad idea.
No maybe about it. I think you’ve got it. The question is whether there will be more serious attacks on civil liberties as well ...aside from the first and second amendment...
They still have 17 holes to play. One small slice for man. One giant sand trap for NASA.
“I want to know why we have to rebuild the technology that took us to the moon FORTY ******* YEARS AGO. AAAAAHHHHHHH!
(Sam Kinnison, screaming at the camera)”
Because Nixon put all our eggs in the low earth orbit space shuttle basket.
Bush had corrected that error with the added addition that the goal is to establish permanant presence, and eventually Mars.
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