Florida Senator Joins Call for NASA Inquiry (0bama Has Defiant Manager Removed)

Orlando Sentinel ^ | May, 27 2010 | Mark Matthews

[anymouse]

U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, has joined the call for an investigation.

U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, R-Florida, today asked that NASA’s inspector general investigate the recent reassignment of Jeff Hanley, who on Wednesday lost his position as head of NASA’s Constellation moon program (earlier story here).

Hanley has defended Constellation, even as the White House wants to cancel key parts of the program to make way for a new strategy that would replace the space shuttle with commercial rockets to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station.

“This is yet another example of NASA taking actions to cancel the Constellation Program, and that is a violation of law,” said LeMieux, referencing a provision that Congress passed last year that forbids NASA from killing Constellation in 2010. “This is a very serious issue that affects the future of our nation’s space program and thousands of Floridians.”

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, has made a similar request.

She also signed on to a letter with Rockefeller, head of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. View it below.

[anymouse]

Space ping.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

NASA has become so PC that it is losing its ability to fulfill its roll.

[swain_forkbeard]

Obama is on a roll!

[Truth29]

Next, I expect that Obama will assure that the shuttles cannot fly beyond the end of this year no matter what Congress may decide to do.

[bgill]

Seems some are beginning to wake up in DC. Not many months ago, his security clearance would have been pulled and they’d have been waving a pink slip in front of him.

[Paine in the Neck]

What skin does Jay the Commie have in this game?

[Brett66]

I hope to see a similar fate for James Hansen when Obozo is gone.

Perhaps NASA sanitation engineer......

[magellan]

"Next, I expect that Obama will assure that the shuttles cannot fly beyond the end of this year no matter what Congress may decide to do."

This guy is such a Chicago thug politician, I would not be surprised. He will probably order the wing spars of the shuttles be drilled to make them no longer flight worthy.

Remember what Chicago thug politician Daly did to Meigs Field?

From Wikipedia:

In a controversial move on March 31, 2003, Mayor Daley ordered private crews to destroy the runway in the middle of the night, bulldozing large X-shaped gouges into the runway surface. The required notice was not given to the Federal Aviation Administration or the owners of airplanes tied down at the field, and as a result sixteen planes were left stranded at an airport with no operating runway, and an incoming flight was diverted.

[maine-iac7]

BUMP

If this POS’s determination to kill our Space Program isn't stopped, (and he directed NASA to redirect the funds “to mostly Muslim countries to train Muslim youth in the space industry sciences ...” upwards to 100,000 Americans (The the Kennedy Space Center, the Houston Space cntr, the base dependent jobs in both areas and other businesses around the country who produce space industry materials -) will be put out of work - DELIBERATELY.

(Not even mentioning giving countries like China and Russia the carte blanche to space - and the Muslims) -

I was talking with someone at the KSC last night. EVERY SINGLE PERSON EMPLOYED ON BASE WILL BE FIRED THIS FALL! Then they will hire back a hand-full - mostly maintenance - at lower wages, benefits and vacations knocked back to entry level, etc. But @7,000 will NOT get their jobs back. And another up to 30,000 in area base dependent jobs will lose theirs as the businesses they work for go out of business. (Ditto scenario in Houston)

And this is being done deliberately and uneccessesarily in a time of deep unemployment. (I wont even tell you about the other American Industry they are, as I type, going after with the goal of dumping 300,000 more onto the unemployment lines = well, actually, these 300,000 are largely self-employed so won't even qualify for unemployment funds - they'll just be out of work, period, and wont be counted on the 'unemployment' counts.)

Congress MUST take back it's legal responsibility in this and stop this POS’s illegal actions against our Space Program.

And WE must freep our congresscritters and DEMAND they do!.

[NonZeroSum]

If this POS’s determination to kill our Space Program isn't stopped, (and he directed NASA to redirect the funds “to mostly Muslim countries to train Muslim youth in the space industry sciences ...” upwards to 100,000 Americans (The the Kennedy Space Center, the Houston Space cntr, the base dependent jobs in both areas and other businesses around the country who produce space industry materials -) will be put out of work - DELIBERATELY.

(Not even mentioning giving countries like China and Russia the carte blanche to space - and the Muslims) -

This is nutty. The space program is not being killed, and the money for it is not being diverted to Muslim countries.

[maine-iac7]

You say: “This is nutty. The space program is not being killed, and the money for it is not being diverted to Muslim countries.”

Right. I'm just making this all up.

http://www.thefoxnation.com/international/2010/02/22/obama-asks-nasa-chief-reach-out-muslim-countries?page=2

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/feb/nasa-focus-muslim-outreach

and when obama went to the Kennedy Space Center for his “News” conference to lay out HIS Space Program - the news shots were in a room with maybe 30 people - all enthusiastic. What they didn't’ tell you was that these people were NOT, as you were supposed to think, people that actually worked there - but people he took in for the photo op. He didn't dare to actually face the people whose life work and livelihoods he is deep sixing. But hey, not to worry that our moon program is dead unless, if, by some miracle, some in Congress step up and takes back their legally mandated power to override his edicts - never mind that our astronauts will be left to hitch rides back and forth to the space station with the antiquated Russian mode - and pay BIG EXTRA BUCKS for it - hey, just think, Obama’s idea for our Space Program. “We can go to an asteroid!”

Let's leave all future advances and applications for civilian life that spins off from the Space Program to the Russians and Chinese and Japanese and Indians - and, soon, the Muslim countries (courtesy of Obama.)

Let's not even mention some of the incredible advances we each have already benefited from due to our Space Program that even YOU have and do use:

http://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html

Yeah. What I wrote is “nutty.” (but I”m just going by what my family - who has been working in the program since the Mercury Seven - and the present son who currently is in quality control on the booster rockets = been at the base almost 30 years - what do they know over over you?)

Yep. Lot of sense in bambi’s program.

(BTW, like you moniker - fits somehow)

[NonZeroSum]

Right. I'm just making this all up.

You're making up the notion that all of the money is going to Muslim (or other) countries. Very little of it is. You're also making up the notion that the manned space program is being killed. It's actually going to move forward much faster than with Constellation, extending ISS by at least five years, and focusing NASA on human missions beyond earth orbit, instead of building unnecessary redundant and horrifically expensive launch systems.