Posted on 04/15/2010 4:49:02 PM PDT by myknowledge
President Barack Obama on Thursday set out his plan for the future of the U.S. space agency NASA. His vision includes an eventual manned flight to Mars, although not as soon as many Americans had hoped. The president went to Florida's Kennedy Space Center to defend his controversial proposal to change America's course in space.
President Obama says he wants American space exploration to "leap into the future," and not continue on the same path. "By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to earth, and a landing on Mars will follow, and I expect to be around to see it," he said.
At the Kennedy Space Center, where U.S. space missions begin, Mr. Obama unveiled his proposal for the future of NASA beyond the end of the space shuttle program, which has only three flights remaining.
The president's plan would give private companies almost $6 billion to build their own spacecraft and fly them to the International Space Station. It would also extend the station's life by five years.
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President Obama at Kennedy Space Center, 15 Apr 2010
Actually, Obama would send our astronauts in 1960s era Apollo spacecraft, and they would die reaching Mars.
Furthermore, the NASA astronauts of today are nothing like that of their forebears of the space age's golden age.
OK I will say it, he can have the first ride.....
“His vision includes an eventual manned flight to Mars”
Maybe when we don’t have a spendaholic ignoramus man-child as our president.
Obama-commie shuck and jive act. Why does he love to lay off white folks?
The president’s plan would give private companies almost $6 billion to build their own spacecraft and fly them to the International Space Station. It would also extend the station’s life by five years.
If he’s willing to do that, why not extend the life of
the shuttle program to cover the gap?
We have a system that works, do they think a new system
is not going to have problems?
Why don’t we just call it Obamunism and he can be the Obamunist in Chief?
Can we send Obama to Mars. .like. . now?
I thought he wanted us to land on a meteor first, like in 2025?
Putting a man on a meteor seems like such a worthy pursuit . . . if you’re about 12 & read comic books.
Yeah, first he's got to finish destroying America and converting it into the socialist paradise he envisions.
I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to earth, and a landing on Mars will follow, and I expect to be around to see it,"
Hopefully from the prison cell you so richly deserve you un-Constitutional fraud.
The president’s plan would give private companies almost $6 billion to build their own spacecraft and fly them to the International Space Station..
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Cool. Gubamint Venture Capital
Exactly how much money is really saved by destroying the space program?
Compared to the absolute crap this jackass is happy to throw money at.
What’s space costing us compared to all of the other junk? About 500 bucks, relatively speaking?
I bet he'll die there.
his plans are to bow to the russians, apologize profusely, and beg for a ride into space.
every time I see that person masquerading as a president, I get closer to becoming nauseous
By then we will be Quadrillions in debt. What Horse Manure.
Only if we can gut Obamacare, social welfare programs and all other unnecessary junk, along with looting the Federal Reserve, can we fund a space program to Mars.
Buzz Aldrin thinks Obama’s plan is the cat’s meow. He’s such a putz.
I'd wished the Federal Reserve was looted, after all, they've looted America for nearly a century.
This globalist elite frontman is made to pacify and sicken the masses. Obama is doing a damn good job for his globalist elite handlers.
If he’s planning for it to happen in “2030” it means he isn’t planning to do it at all.
We made it from no space program at all to standing on the moon in ten years. There isn’t any reason we couldn’t be back to the moon within a couple of years if we wanted to do it.
he went to speak to “workers” but they weren’t there...200 “invited” guests in attendance. Another photo op for the fake.
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