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Obama Space Panel Says Moon Return Plan Is A No-Go
WESH TV-2 Orlando ^
| 09/08/09
| Seth Borenstein
Posted on 09/08/2009 2:05:47 PM PDT by NonValueAdded
A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly.
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However, President Barack Obama's expert panel said any plan to go beyond low-Earth orbit was "not viable" with current spending.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhonasa; federalspending; moonbase; nasa; obama; science; space
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[Ap story severely snipped - just like the space program]. Report released today. "beyond low-Earth orbit" means Mars is out too. China, here is the high ground, yours for the taking. I guess Obama should have said a few words to the budding engineers in his school audience - don't bother kids, but we'll have a shovel waiting for you.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:07:06 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
To: NonValueAdded
The more Chinese to the moon or Mars the merrier. I wish they’d all go.
To: NonValueAdded
I know his Moon God lives there.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:08:26 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
To: NonValueAdded
Got to pay for the lazy and the worthless. American can do spirit is over.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:08:38 PM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(No teleprompters were harmed in the creation of this post.)
To: NonValueAdded
The future of space exploration apparently belongs to Asia.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:09:42 PM PDT
by
The Duke
("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Democrat Party?")
To: NonValueAdded
...don't bother kids, but we'll have a shovel waiting for you.
The burly gentlemen at the back of the room will get you started on completing your union cards for those "shovel ready" jobs.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:10:07 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: NonValueAdded
The silver lining is that when either the Chinese or the Indians end up there, we’ll have a Sputnik moment and a reawakening of the culture of science and the spirit of exploration.
Did anyone expect anything else from the Obamawallahs?
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:10:30 PM PDT
by
swarthyguy
(MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
To: NonValueAdded
Florida voters were warned about this schmuck.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:11:08 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: NonValueAdded
Can we just take up donations or have a bake sale to raise the funds to send him there ourselves?
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:11:52 PM PDT
by
mrmeyer
("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
To: AdvisorB; 88keys; Matchett-PI; mcmuffin; 3D-JOY; WorkerbeeCitizen; shove_it; drj; Sax; Normal4me; ..
Brevard County, Florida ping.
Let me know if you want on or off this ping list.
(not associated with the county government)
PS Rocket launch imminent. http://spaceflightnow.com/ Atlas 5 at 5:35 PM
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:11:53 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
To: NonValueAdded
Well, golf clap to you, too, 0bama & science czar. Finding new space gadgets is so 20th century. Who needs another space blanket invention anyway. Have a cookie.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:14:18 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spirito Sancto.)
To: NonValueAdded
America retreats again under pRES_ _ENT Obama.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:15:01 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: NonValueAdded
Yep. They want every penny they can steal from us to be spent on buying votes to ensure their power in perpetuity.
The space program is one of the few things besides the military that really speaks to American excellence and the realization of achievement of the highest possible individual goals, and the biggest picture of all when it comes to large, imaginative thinking outside the box. NASA programs are the mother of American ingenuity and “Yes We Can”, but ostammer and his commies have decided, “No We Won’t”.
This is yet another nail in the coffin of what was once a great nation, but it feels like the final nail. The golden age of America is truly dead with this decision.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:15:47 PM PDT
by
bustinchops
(Teddy ("The Hiccup") Kennedy - the original water-boarder)
To: Sybeck1
Got to pay for the lazy and the worthless. American can do spirit is over. I'm reading Gene Kranz's "Failure Is Not An Option" right now. The contrast between then and now makes it seem like a work of fiction.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:17:29 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(NRA Lifetime Member since 1984; TSRA rookie)
To: NonValueAdded
Straight to the moon!
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:18:58 PM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(To meet decent people these days you have to create them.)
To: NonValueAdded
...and Dim-o-crap icon JFK spins like a top in his grave.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:19:31 PM PDT
by
LaybackLenny
(Sarah Palin can see the left's heads explode from her house!)
To: NonValueAdded
NOTE the story is now fleshed out significantly from what it was when I posted.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:21:05 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
To: NonValueAdded
I was just thinking - as an engineer - that it would be reasonably cost effective, if we sent Yobama to the moon. One way.
But on second thought, I think sending him only HALF-way to the moon would be even MORE cost-effective.
To: NonValueAdded
Oh, who needs research, exploration, technology, development, enterprise...we’re going to be on the union collective farm growing healthy vegetables for a few years until we get too old and expensive to keep alive (say, about age 40)...but that’s okay, because everybody in the country but the Dear Leader and his friends and family will have no reason to live anyway. The lights will literally be going out all over the US, and we will become the Third World hell-hole of Bambi’s fondest dreams.
Clearly, space exploration is going to be meaningless to us then.
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posted on
09/08/2009 2:25:34 PM PDT
by
livius
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