Posted on 03/08/2010 7:55:10 PM PST by PilotDave
President Obama vowed to defend his plan to mothball NASA's shuttle fleet as the debate over the spacecraft's future turned partisan. The White House said Obama would explain to the country why he believes NASA would get more bang for its space buck by scrapping the shuttle and turning rocket launches over to private contractors in an address slated for April 15th. The shuttle program is slated to end later this year. Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, of Texas, last week slammed Obama's agenda, claiming it would cause the U.S. to take a back seat to other countries in terms of space research and exploration.
Bailey also said the shuttle program shouldn't be scrapped until a replacement vehicle is ready.
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Priorities ya know.
“Honestly, I just want to give my pals in China a chance to catch up on rocketry.”
Maybe if we paint the shuttle all black with a big red crescent or red sickle on it, maybe he’ll go for it. We can rename it “America’s National Debt” and watch it, too, launch into outer space.
/mark
He doesn’t not know what the f*ck he is doing . We HAVE to get rid of this idiot.I can’t believe this . The country elected a total amateur Marxist a hole to the White house. Yea sure , why bother exploring the future of man when you can spend that money on the do nothing , useless street garbage that pollutes ever city in this country. No contribution no benefits.
Typical Liberal thinks that the private sector can do a better job than the Government.
Funny. For a guy that’s so into government, he seems dead set against one of the few things government has done well at times.
I’m getting cognitive dissonance.
Remember, this is coming from the same Jack Squat Barry that thinks we can get more bang for our medical bucks by having it run by the guberment....who can’t even run a Post Office without going in the red, year after year....yeah.....amazes me that lying has become a national pasttime....for a President.
He doesn’t not know what the f*ck he is doing . We HAVE to get rid of this idiot.I can’t believe this . The country elected a total amateur Marxist a hole to the White house.”
That’s the problem. He knows exactly what he is doing.
Hey Florida, how’s that vote for Zero working out for ya?
“Typical Liberal thinks that the private sector can do a better job than the Government.”
Why does Obama want to take health care from the private sector and give the space program to the private sector? He says the private sector can do space cheaper even though they have no record established in space launches. The guy is a ball of contradictions, and has no business even being the leader of the county dog catchers, must less president of the United States.
I agree to an extent . He is certainly following the Marxist handbook . I do feel he is just the puppet though . They are screwing up badly in that he grossly underestimated the American public. He’s ego will be his downfall eventually
Wow. He is actually doing something sensible for change. Feels weird. For the Shuttle fetishists out there, the Shuttle really hasn't done much for space science or space exploration or utilization. It is overly complex and expensive and represents the triumph of hope over experience.
grossly underestimated the American public.
He is going to economically collapse this nation. The American public is grossly ill-informed.
I am okay with turning part of NASA over to private industry. They can do it better, faster and cheaper. But, let’s use the remnants of NASA to build a defense system to shield us from incoming nukes.
I’m speaking of US Americans not the TV watching CBS news watching , Dancing with the Stars morons.
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