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Obama to propose $6 billion NASA budget increase
reuters ^ | 4/14/10

Posted on 04/14/2010 9:55:04 AM PDT by Nachum

President Barack Obama will outline a revamped space policy on Thursday that will use $6 billion in new funding over five years to create 2,500 new jobs in Florida with the ultimate goal of going to Mars.

Obama has been facing criticism from some members of the far-flung U.S. space community over the direction of space policy after NASA officials announced plans in March to kill the Constellation program that had been designed to launch astronauts into orbit and return Americans to the moon.

The Constellation program, developed under the Bush administration, was aimed at returning astronauts to the moon in the 2020s to clear the way for a Mars mission.

White House officials said on Tuesday that Obama wants NASA to begin work on building a new heavy lift rocket sooner than envisioned under the canceled Constellation program, with a commitment to decide in 2015 on the specific rocket that will take astronauts deeper into space.

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To: Nachum

Trying to save a RAT seat in Congress perhaps?


21 posted on 04/14/2010 11:19:35 AM PDT by freespirited (I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Looks like it to me.


22 posted on 04/14/2010 11:21:09 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Shovel ready jobs - burying space workers’ jobs under a pile of “green” B.S. jobs.


23 posted on 04/14/2010 12:36:05 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: DoughtyOne
It will be developed and tested by 2008

I think that was more a case of wishful thinking than a lie.

24 posted on 04/14/2010 1:55:01 PM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: BubbaBasher

My emphasis on lying, was the report that Bush intended to put us back on the moon in the 20s. He clearly envisioned it between 2015 and 2020.

We have seen mission creep here, in that the goal keeps being pushed back with the excuse that this was the real goal all along.

NO! It wasn’t.

I appreciate your point, and don’t disagree.


25 posted on 04/15/2010 9:39:37 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Be still & kneel before the know-nothing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr., may fleas be upon him.)
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