Posted on 02/25/2010 11:16:41 AM PST by Species8472
White House plans to axe NASA's return-to-the-Moon Constellation programme and ground the Space Shuttle have sparked unified opposition from Congress, which looks determined to preserve a full spectrum of US manned spaceflight activities.
A draft Congressional bill leaked to Flight International sets out the politicians' alternate plan. It involves possibly extending Shuttle life to 2015, running competitive commercial crew and cargo programmes and continuing development of Constellation's vehicles including a heavylift rocket designed to get astronauts to the Moon in the 2020s and then Mars.
senator Bill Nelson of Florida says of the opposition to the Obama plan: "I have never seen [Congress] as unified as we are now."
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
Rubio, McCollum and Crist are running for Nelson’s seat on the Republican side.
See that. Obama IS a unifier. We are unified against his stupid ideas.
I agree with you.
Good for Congress. They need to kick this imposter right where it hurts.
Good for them! I hope they get rid of his special plan to “share” our space technology with Muslim countries, too.
Reinstate the F22 as well.
And if the usurper veto’s, congress with all unified will easily override that veto. HA
“This is one occasion since 0bama took power, when congress is doing the right thing...”
Assuming they are not just posturing... House passes Bill, sends to Senate, where the Bill never comes out of committee, or if it does the funds are slashed to a level that makes no practical difference to the continued life of US manned space program. But hey, they all voted for the program and demonstrated their “unwavering commitment”...
Reinstate the F22 as well.
And bring back the F1 Saturn V motor!
I am lost. We know we are broke. We want government spending to be reduced. Yet people here want to blow billions on stuff that we have already done ( been to the Moon— Done that) and go around and round to nowhere with another politically correct crew. We are out of money. Shut it down.
You should fee lost. There is a lot of rah rah cheerleading on FR for things that don't actually make any sense. A lot of the reason that the scientific community oposes manned spaceflight is that they believe it to be an extravagant stunt that drastically cuts into resources to put useful scientific instruments into space.
What you are ignoring is ROI. The monies spent on the manned space program have come back to our society (and arguably, the whole world) in new technologies. These led to new products....which meant new markets, new companies, new industries, countless jobs.
No, NASA (in its heyday, at least) was one hell of a good investment. I’m all for cutting a HUGE number of Federal agencies....but a reinvigorated NASA should be very well funded.
good points. Thanks
Cookies & ice cream for everyone. The country is broke. Until you boot out illegals by cutting of benefits and have domestic energy production then we cannot afford any of this.
The continuous power of America achieving these feats makes us a superpower and a serious nation to contend with if you’re another country. It is also American Pride.
I can’t think of any contribution to my life in the last 20 years of Nasa and the Trillion we spent there.The Federal government should provide for a lethal military force to annihilate any enemy crossing our borders . That’s it. All else reverts to the state or the individual. We don’t need them in educating, providing transfer payments or Nasa.
I gotta look-up whoever is challenging Nelso, whom I despise myself.
Yes, let's leave it to the Chinese and Russians. We can come begging to them with hat in hand if we need a ride to fix those fancy scientific instruments.
Manned space flight is far too important to drop. This isn’t a simple budget issue this is a National Security issue. If anything the process to replace the space shuttle as a means of manned space flight should be sped up considerably.
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