Posted on 12/01/2008 2:22:01 PM PST by Joiseydude
WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's NASA transition team is asking U.S. space agency officials to quantify how much money could be saved by canceling the Ares 1 rocket and scaling back the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle next year.
Obama pledged during his campaign to inject an additional $2 billion into NASA aimed in part at narrowing the gap between the space shuttle's retirement and the introduction of a successor system.
While NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and his senior managers are adamant that Ares and Orion are the right vehicles to fill that role, Obama did not endorse either system by name during his campaign.
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“They threw them away.”
If true, makes me very sick.
Saturn V was one of the most beautiful machines ever built.
Any links or references Mr. Jeeves?
Uh, you need heavy lift to orbit capability to build the elevator.
Google reveals nothing but some unofficial denials, but the story was widely reported a few years ago.
Remember reading about that principle years ago .
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa041702a.htm
“What do you think the NASA budget is?? 200 Billion a year? 150 billion a year?? Heh?
Try 15 billion a year..”
Yup. The One and the rest of the libs will spend trillions on every social program they can think of. But 15 billion for the space program is too much for them. The new masters of space will be China. While they will be sending people to the Moon and Mars, we will well on our way to third world status.
Conservatives are much more intelligent and cognizant of their place in the grand scheme.
It also helps that Conservatives do not perceive every national endeavor as a public works program to be started and stopped at the whim of the social planner!
As long as the technology is immediately ported to entrepreneurs and industry, why not? More and more space companies are appearing thanks in part to original research as NACA and NASA.
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This is what happens when we as a nation went from ‘gazing at the stars with wonder’ to ‘dancing with the stars’.
Or it could be that W's Mission to Mars is a really bad idea.
Depressing dude...we need private sector achievements and R&D now more than ever.
No..
Provided that Obama allows private space development..
“in little more than 100 years, we went from horses, to cars, to prop planes, to jets, to landing on the moon.”
well it would be remarkable if we don’t slip even further behind over the next 4 years. But we do have to think for the future. We need to
1) have permanent R&D tax credits.
2) restructure the tax code so that it doesn’t punish productive people or reward debt
3) have a national effort to push kids to be the best in math and science. Forget the the debate between private vs public schools or trying to getting the govt to evaluate states, school districts, teachers and curriculum.
Go directly to the kids and parents, reward them for achievement on voluntary standardized tests and they will do what it takes to win.
4) have more prizes like the darpa robot car challenge
5) end the make-work local infrastructure projects that fill up potholes with concrete or building porky bridges to nowhere. Focus on 2 big things: a high speed freight rail system and universal broadband. Ideally wire everything with fiber optics. Look at Japan and South korea.
6) we’ll need more nuke plants. Liberals will have to concede that global warming will no longer be an issue, conservatives want energy independence from OPEC (ANWR and offshore drilling will not shield us from global oil prices!) but in any event we’re going to need more electricity for more tech.
if we can do all that, we will have the foundation for future space exploration.
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