Posted on 10/25/2016 9:29:34 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have released their plans for what they would do with the space program if they were elected.
WESH 2 News is comparing Trump and Clinton’s ideas on the key Central Florida issue of spaceflight.
Trump wants big changes for NASA, which his campaign said has become little more than a logistics agency supporting the space station.
Clinton, in plans recently released by campaign aides, wants a NASA with steady budgets that drive innovation on Earth.
Trump’s advisors said in a statement that “human exploration of our entire solar system by the end of this century should be NASA’s focus and goal.” That goes far beyond NASA’s plan to send people to Mars in the 2030s.
Clinton’s campaign, on the other hand, makes a carefully worded statement calling Mars a “consensus horizon goal.” The statement does not say if Clinton is part of the consensus.
Clinton’s plan keeps NASA part of the effort to “tackle the urgent threat of climate change,” aides said, while Trump’s campaign turns up its nose at what it calls “politically correct environmental monitoring.”
The new plans are something space backers have been waiting to hear.
“We know on the Space Coast that we need to maintain this cutting-edge for our future,” said Lorraine Koss of the Space Coast League of Women Voters.
Both candidates indicate spaceflight will undergo a substantial period of study once a new administration takes over. That can set back the space agency’s target dates a few years.
Focus on earth first. Then if you wantbo send the liberals and Muslims to another planet and you have money, fine....
Trump will send Clintons, Obama’s, Reid, and Pelosi in exile to The new planet circling Proxima Centauri. It is SUPPOSEDLY earth-like
Trump ought encourage private space efforts like Musk and Branson are doing.
crony capitalism by the establishment ?
No way - impossible /s
If you mean those facts about idiots Sheila Jackson Lee and Hank Johnson, they’ve been known and out there for years.
You do not need a space agency for innovation on Earth.
Obama has gutted the space agency and set it up to be absorbed by other government entities. His ideas of landing on asteroids and getting more Muslims involved are plain stupid and gross misuse of resources.
Clueless Clinton will do no better.
I think NASA is an over-bloated cover-your-ass agency that took the after-disaster correction level to the extreme.
Their willingness to participate in climate change fraud, eagerness to promote Muslim contributions to space (ha) and these plans for Mars explorations, forays and ‘science/jobs programs’ are just money pissed down a hole.
It should be STOPPED from becoming an implementing agency. If we have to have one it should be relegated to a clearing house and incubator for commercial exploration and advancement ideas of both small and big companies. Use their facilities, assets and the untainted brainpower that is there to identify which non-government entities have the best and most promising ideas and technology.
The NASA of yesteryear is no longer. There is no basis to continue with it as the vanguard of the future while it pisses away all our money in the process.
My space program.
Hillary and a one way ticket.
I was just playin’ with with Sheilas recent comments about the “Wikipedia leaks”
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