To: Star Traveler
"And, I guess my point for bringing that up, at all ... is ... it's mighty hard to support a program like NASA and the manned space program, when a good chunk of conservatives themselves don't even support it." It seems to me that NASA lost "that vision thing" and, in so doing, it lost a lot of popular support. It's too bad, really. Manned space exploration is important for a host of reasons - just ask the Chinese.
29 posted on
06/13/2010 10:08:43 PM PDT by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: Flag_This
It seems to me that NASA lost "that vision thing" and, in so doing, it lost a lot of popular support. It's too bad, really. Manned space exploration is important for a host of reasons - just ask the Chinese. NASA's "vision" is always that of the president and/or his administration. The problem is that NASA's projects always necessarily transcend presidential terms, so the vision shifts with every election. If we want NASA to have a vision, then we should insist (as Congress did when they wrote into the law that funded Constellation, a limitation on the president's ability to cancel it) the president stop playing politics with the agency.
66 posted on
06/14/2010 5:41:12 AM PDT by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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