Sally Ride is not exactly a Ba'rocket' scientist...
Posted on 10/29/2008 6:14:52 PM PDT by melt
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has gained a foothold in another voter demographic: astronauts.
Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, endorsed the Democratic candidate on Wednesday in an op-ed published in the Orlando Sentinel.
Comparing Obama’s inspirational capabilities to those of JFK, she writes, “He has inspired young people to engage with their communities and has excited them about the possibilities of what they can accomplish. That is in the best spirit of discovery.”
Space travel is not just the subject of childhood fantasies though. It’s primed to be a major policy issue for the next administration.
NASA, currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, is widely considered to be at a crossroads as it refocuses on returning to the moon and sending the first astronauts to Mars.
President Bush highlighted the new objectives in 2004, less than a year after the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated while reentering the Earth’s atmosphere. To reach these goals, NASA will retire its aging shuttle fleet — only 10 more flights are planned — and create a new generation of rockets, the Ares I and V.
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Sally Ride is not exactly a Ba'rocket' scientist...
guilty
Yawn
What a load of PC BS.
I thought astronauts were smart? Nothing is as it seems. :-)
Oooooo... I’m scared.
I guess just because you have a PHD doesn’t mean you are smart. I used to admire her but no more.
who?
She’s not the crazy female astronaut that wore the adult diaper on the cross country ride, is she?
Good... now she and Knowack can put on diapers and drive to Orlando. Space cadet
Ride, sally, ride
It’s not your time, it’s just your confusion
perfect lyrics....fits
Merely following in the footsteps of John Glenn and Bill Nelson.
Just go away..
She is not. However, being an astronaut no longer seemed "cool" after the diaper incident happened.
LOL.....under a Obama regime she would have still been cooking in the cafeteria or birthin babies versus her Ride she earned in NASA !
See Hillary / Palin as to what Obamination will do for Women !
Liberated women “don’t need a man to take care of them” -
(they have the government)
“What a load of PC BS.”
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Exactly. No one believes in those vacuous platitudes.
What is she after?
— OR —
What perverted or socialist cause of hers does ONothing promise to inflict on America in his administration?
Hey now! Major Anthony Nelson was the man...Roger Heely not so much...Dr. Bellows—whack job....but Major’s “find”...hot I’m telling you. I loved that show.
Doesn’t impress me with her logic. Analytical ability.
Ugly, stupid and Socialist is no way to go through life, Sal.
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