Posted on 09/08/2009 5:09:50 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON — A White House panel of independent space experts says NASA's return-to-the-moon plan just won't fly.
The problem is money. The expert panel estimates it would cost about $3 billion a year beyond NASA's current $18 billion annual budget.
"Under the budget that was proposed, exploration beyond Earth is not viable," panel member Edward Crawley, a professor of aeronautics at MIT, told The Associated Press Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Scrape healthcare overahaul instead of opting for a less expensive reform and you would have the money for another possible moon landing plan.
Better yet, scrape all the money Barry is giving to special interest groups such as ACORN, etc. and there would be tens of billions freed up. =.=
This is what national decline looks like.
Direct 3.0 said they could do it within the specified budget. But the commission added secret sauce and bulked up their estimate. We should have abandoned the stick (Aries 1) a year ago when the thrust oscillation and lack of lifting power became obvious. If we had pulled the plug then we would have had enough money to build Direct.
Thanks KD.
Obama Space Panel Says Moon Return Plan Is A No-Go
WESH TV-2 Orlando | 09/08/09 | Seth Borenstein
Posted on 09/08/2009 2:05:47 PM PDT by NonValueAdded
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2334865/posts
If things move any further to the left I just may do my version of “going Galt.”
Foregone conclusion. The only purpose of this committee was to give Zero cover to kill the space program. He needs the money to pay others off.
This decision is really a shame ...
1. NASA has some of the best emerging technology around in power storage, solar & wind ... which should assist our clean technology efforts
2. NASA has a track record of getting their technology into corporate hands and into new devices for all of us
3. You really cannot call yourself a superpower a couple years from now, when you no longer have a manned launch capability
But, as several posts have already stated - you consider who is POTUS, and the fact that major NASA sites sit in convervative non-Zero zones, and you can triangulate the answer without a calculator.
At the end of the day, it took Kennedy to build it, and Zero to wreck it.
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