Posted on 02/06/2010 10:37:21 PM PST by Marcus
NASA administrator Charles Bolden traveled to the Kennedy Space Center for the occasion of the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour STS 130. But he was also in Florida to confront the consequences of the new Obama administration space policy.
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Hope & Change NASA. You suckers vote for your boy slappy happy hayseed goober Bill Nelson.
“Obama Lied. NASA Died.”
psssst,.....hey Charles, hit back at the Obamacy with an expose’ of the climate change hoax , you got nuthin’ to lose now, go for it
Even congress isn’t going to sign off on this steaming load.
The Space Shuttle is about due to launch (less than 3 hours and counting).
Any chance we could get Obama to go to the launchpad, and take a temperature reading underneath the booster rockets?
One hour and 13 minutes to launch.
To destroy a country, you destroy its dreams.
Bolden himself, recommended that the Obama Administration kill the moon program. IOW, Obama was merely doing what Bolden wanted.
From: Obama’s ‘Game-changing’ NASA Plan Folds Constellation, Bets Commercial:
“You can hope forever that the president’s going to change his mind,” Bolden said during the all-hands address broadcast to the agency’s 10 field centers. “You can hope that I will go to the Hill and get beat up, and … will say, ‘OK, Congress, you’re right, my recommendations to the president were all wrong. I was dumb. And we need to go back and spend $30 billion … on the Constellation program.’ Ain’t going to happen.”
Bolden said the longer the agency resists the loss of Constellation, the longer it will take to devise a new plan.
“The sooner we all get through this period of denial and grief … the sooner we’re going to go to the Moon and to Mars and to other places,” he said. “If it takes a year to get through this, we’re a year behind. If it takes us two years to get through it, we’re two years behind.”
Bolden’s words of appreciation for NASA’s Constellation team throughout the week stood in contrast to the rough treatment the program received during the agency’s budget rollout, a hastily arranged media teleconference handled largely by his deputy, chief financial officer and a White House science adviser. Bolden read an opening statement and left the call without taking questions.
Jim Kohlenberger, chief of staff of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told reporters that Constellation was undone by a raft of bad choices and that sunk costs were no reason to stick with a flawed program.
“The fact that we poured $9 billion into an unexecutable program really isn’t an excuse to pour another $50 billion into it and still not have an executable program,” Kohlenberger said.
“But...but...When I voted for Obama....Change was for everybody else!”
Yet another Obama promise with an expiration date.
Peronally I think we should thing beyond the moon since “we’ve been there and done that” mentality is on many taxpayers mind including my own when you look at the BIB bicks it would take just to do it all over again. Hell, build an in orbit space vehicle assemby gantry (yes I saw it on Star Trek). We’d still keep our foot in the door with flights while we fund the BEST engineers to build starships, manned or unmanned that can announce our presence “Out There”, but don’t stop Space Exploration funding !!!
As our country gets deeper and deeper into debt, increases entitlement programs, and ratchets back on discretionary spending, the resulting impact on R&D is predictable, and has been predictable for more than twenty years.
The recipients of entitlements are most interested in keeping and increasing their government provided income. As a group they have little interest in R&D. As a group they have more and more voting power by numbers.
The R&D spending by the country has been decreasing steadily since the 1960s. It now has reached a tipping point. How much R&D is performed by socialist countries like Cuba? That is where we are heading, IMO.
Obama administration space policy.With all his great powers spcecraft not required Obama will just beem them up.
“We’d still keep our foot in the door with flights while we fund the BEST engineers to build starships, manned or unmanned that can announce our presence “Out There”, but don’t stop Space Exploration funding !!!”
“Starships” of any practical kind are far beyond our current level of technology.
Of course but we should never stop doing the research.
“Of course but we should never stop doing the research.”
We aren’t really doing “starship” research. We haven’t got “interplanetary” down yet.
Yes. But we have to walk first before we can run..right?
“Yes. But we have to walk first before we can run..right?”
Yes. Which is why we need to return to the moon.
Yes it was sarcasm.
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