Posted on 06/12/2009 12:24:14 PM PDT by anymouse
For the first time since man set foot on the moon four decades ago, a president has ordered a wholesale review of the space program’s future and whether the U.S. can afford to — or even wants to — return to the moon or send humans hurtling toward Mars.
With new leadership poised to take command of NASA, the next few months could be pivotal to the jobs of thousands of space program employees and contractors who depend on NASA for their livelihoods. As the shuttle prepares for its future as a museum exhibit and cost projections for a new moon mission rise while the timetable slips, the space agency’s political future is very much in doubt.
Despite President Barack Obama’s repeated expressions of excitement about space exploration, his administration’s ongoing scrutiny of the manned program is stirring concern among NASA employees and aerospace contractors that jobs will be lost, multibillion-dollar contracts will be jeopardized and the planned return to the moon will be delayed or even scrapped.
“It’s basic human instinct to wonder and perhaps worry about the future when this type of review is being conducted,” says Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, whose district includes Johnson Space Center.
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Just sell your soul and tell obozo admin that he can count on your vote in 2012 and he’ll ensure you get all the printed paper money you want.
Zero already killed the Ares Program.
Zero already killed the Ares Program.
Is there any industry that isn’t freaking out right now? He’s killing the energy industry also.
Gil Scott-Heron would applaud.
as they scramble to find cash to throw at massive social programs, NASA seems a likely chopping block candidate
We need the NASA budget $$$,000,000,000 for health care and more sub-prime loans.
Don’t worry. Mr. Obama will soon be naming a space tsar!
Socialists in space!!!
You can call me a bigot, but there is tremendous disapproval in America’s black community about our space program. Many “social justice” advocates would like to see an end of NASA. It’s just a fact. I’m sure, working and living in the part of Chicago that Obama and his wife did, he received much exposure to this kind of thinking.
Give NASA their budget, tell the nerds to do something cool with it, and get the politicians out of the way.
But NASA is getting to celebrate LGBT month!
I thought NASA was more preoccupied with its gayday celebrations, or whatever....
We gotz Obama, now why would anyone want to escape planet
Hopenchayngz to roam the universe? NASA don’t need any money, besides we need healthcare.
Utopia is here now.
/lotza sarc
Anywhere islam begins to gain a foothold, science will suffer, then disappear.
“Anywhere islam begins to gain a foothold, science will suffer, then disappear”
That is true.
NASA is boldly going into transexual, and gay sex this month.
That was more important than, say, a colony on the moon.
Bye, bye NASA.
Since they became a major bureaucracy with a head guy who celebrates faggotry instead of pursuing the mission, they should be worried.
I certainly am, because I know most of the money is being pissed away.
They have time between their homo celebrations to actually concentrate on their mission?
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