Returning to the moon and establishing a permanent base
is hardly just repeating what we did 40 years ago.
If you want the truth, socialism killed our chances of
a continous moon/space program, sucking precious research
dollars out and flushing them down nonproductive feel good
“welfare” rat holes in order to buy voters to continue
the march of socialism in one of the last free countries.
Essentially everything is the same. I doubt if the program would have survived to the point of establishing a base. After all, a Moon landing wouldn't have occurred until 2020 under the best circumstances. A sign that not even W saw the program as urgent or important.
It's too bad we can't give the money to the aerospace nerds and let them decide. That's the way the unmanned program works and it's very successful, except for the time when Clinton butted in with Better, Faster, Cheaper.
If you want the truth, socialism killed our chances of a continous moon/space program, sucking precious research dollars out and flushing them down nonproductive feel good “welfare” rat holes in order to buy voters to continue the march of socialism in one of the last free countries.
Not so. NASA's manned program costs about the same as what we flush down Puerto Rico every year. And only a fraction of the cost of TARP or the Iraq war. NASA is one of the best bargains the taxpayers get.
NASA’a annual budget is only about $18 billion a year.
It’s only about 0.6% of the annual federal budget.
We spend this much every year on aid to countries like North Korea, Pakistan, and Palestine.
Obama’s cuts have nothing to do with money.