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Posted on 02/04/2010 11:15:14 PM PST by anymouse
The manned space program is important to everyone! Write your congressmen and tell them President Obama is wrong! We must push forward beyond low earth orbit, continue America's leadership in space, and not sacrifice thousands of jobs across the country! Save NASA's Constellation Program!
0:00 What are the political issues?
1:23 What is Constellation?
2:09 What has been built so far?
4:11 Has any rocket engine testing been done?
5:17 Has an actual rocket been built, tested or launched?
5:53 Who did all this work?
7:01 Whats at stake?
7:54 What can be done to help
I'm conflicted in this issue. I am pro commercial space and I know how much work has been done by well intentioned people on the Constellation program.
I just know Zero will screw this up too and siphon off the funds to piss away on the global whining research scam and other liberal pork like phony alternative energy research, instead of bootstrapping the commercial space sector.
I know many of the players in the companies that NASA is going to send money to and they are all liberal Democrats in battleground states. Nothing Zero does is without a political objective pushing the country farther towards socialism.
Don’t be conflicted.
We can’t give up on the goals NASA was tasked with doing with Constellation. The goals are what matter most.
We’re all for commercial endeavors, and I haven’t a problem with helping them out. But we can no more privatize the big goals NASA chases after then privitize the US Marines!
It’s too important strategically to the nation.
The nations that lead on the frontiers, dictate the course of human history.
Obama just wants a political payoff during his term.
Returning to moon, heading for Mars, have no payoff for him.
But the payoff of course is HUGE for our nation.
If we let them they’ll turn us into Holland, 1700. Losing the North American colonies to Britain, economy ravaged by the derivatives, er, tulip fiasco. A once great exploration, trading and scientific nation on the decline. Hey, mebbe they could hide the decline? Naw...
Space ping
we may have to wait till the idiot b@$t@rd kenyan is out of office in 3 years....in the mean time the best we can home for is gridlock in washington on all of this morons marxist schemes....
“we can no more privatize the big goals NASA chases after then privitize the US Marines!”
Excellent point and needs to be said more often.
Thanks!
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