Conflict over NASA spaceflight program complicates funding

Washington Post ^ | Sunday, September 19, 2010; 12:09 AM | Marc Kaufman and Dan Eggen

[Rabin]

The House bill awaiting action would give twice as much money to Russia for transporting astronauts and cargo to the space station as it would give to U.S. companies working to build that capacity.

[Rabin]

NASA’s Ares rockets placed number one among the best inventions of the year.… TIME’s List of 50 Best Inventions of 2009.

CAPE CANAVERAL; April 16, NASA’s Constellation program manager, instructed his managers to “prioritize” all the resources they have at their disposal under this year’s budget to plan for test flights of prototypes of the troubled Ares I rocket.

April, 23 2010— Obama visited Kennedy Space Center last week to unveil his new vision for NASA, the manager of the moon program that Obama wants to kill told his team to draw up plans in case Obama fails to win congressional support. http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_space_thewritestuff/2010/04/ares-i-backers-work-to-save-rocket-despite-white-house-wishes.html

2011 budget request, NASA gets a major program shakeup. It kills the Constellation program (which) includes the Orion crew capsule and the Ares 1 rocket.

[Nachum]

bump for later

[onedoug]

Our manned space program ruined by hussein.

[BobP]

Our manned space program ruined by hussein.

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Houston we have a problem.

If there were ever an enemy of prosperity and opportunity for the middle class, it is the Marxist Barack Hussein Obama.

He is a menace to our nation and damn near everyone living here.

Bowing to foreign leaders, hanging out with terrorists and racists, pushing for amnesty for all illegal aliens in the country, pushing for same sex marriage in spite of the voters' wishes, trying to nationalize health insurance, nationalizing student loans, nationalizing two car companies, setting pay scales in companies not controlled by the government, regulating CO2 emissions, and on and on...

Obama bamboozled millions... gave them the old 'okee doke.' What a moron. He can have as extreme a views as he wants. But he can't transfer them and remake America with them.

Time to end the experiment brought on by the piss-steam media and the Bush derangement crowd.

Liar = Obama.

Cheater = Feds.

Thief = Congress.

Con artist = Piss-Stream Media.

Throw 'em all out.

Obama jail

[Captain Beyond]

Grrr.....Barry's Tyrannical Regine is dead set on making America the most non competitive nation on the planet. The people of America have got to wake up and must fight the BTR at every aspect of it's progressive transformation or there is no longer going to be a "We the People" type country of liberty and freedom for all.

This all goes back to when we signed that idiotic 1967 space treaty saying that no nation could claim sovereignty on an etraterristral body under the guise that this would somehow lessen the Cold War between the US and the USSR when all alone it was about shifting money to other pet projects and away from the space race technology.

Bottom line if we don't take and control the high ground of space we will be at the mercy of Russia and China in the next big war.

[G-Man 1]

I told every one when the zero was running for pres. that he was a commie. How stupid people can be.
The democrat party is the commies useful idiots.

[rbg81]

Oh, come on! It’s critical that we make the Russians feel good about their space program too (along with the Muslims). [/s]