Posted on 04/15/2010 10:14:54 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama tries to quell dispute over his cuts to manned space exploration with promise of 'leap into the future'
President Obama promised a “leap into the future” for Nasa yesterday in a speech designed to quell a growing dispute over his cuts to manned space exploration, and to persuade critics that America will eventually put astronauts on Mars.
Despite cancelling Constellation, the $108 billion (more than £69 bn) programme that aimed to get astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and the Red Planet by 2030, he outlined a series of “stepping stone” destinations where Nasa will first seek a foothold in deep space using humans and robots.
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Get our astronauts to the red planet by 2030....
Just have them hitch a ride with our debt. They’d be at the moon right now.
I call BS, the people at ATS say we’ve been going to MARS for many years now - secret projects dontcha know. This could be yet another case of Obama taking credit for something he didn’t do - he’s a gifted thief.
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Bump!
And Congress?...
He is a liar. He needs to step down.
What if the best route to Mars passes through the Moon?
Zer0 declared the America will not go to the Moon. Instead it it going to Mars. What he did not tell us is that America is also going to He11.
Libs have always hated space exploration. They always whined about solving earth’s problems first before venturing into space(in otherwords, never)The other reason is that they hate the U.S. and our greatness. A successful space program is one indicator of greatness.
Libs have always hated space exploration.<<<
But take advantage of every resulting inovation and protection that have been produced. Computers, cell phones, GPS, weather forcasting and the list goes on and on and on!!
Reading a friend’s blog (he’s super smart, I mean like super genius smart and fairly famous for his space articles on Discovery Channel, but he is drunk on Obama koolaid) yesterday and all he could say was “It’s so nice to listen to President and not be embarrassed by his speaking.”
Yeah, so he can be horrible to the space industry, just as long as he pronounces “nuclear” properly.
This is what is so weird to me. I’ve never cared who voted for whom. Ever. Friends and I disagreed and that was no big deal. However with Obama I’m finding either you have lost your mind delusionally in love with him and he can do no wrong, or you hate him and are convinced he is a treasonous traitor. No in between. Now I find myself in the treasonous traitor catagory, but feel my logic is rational. I’m sure the koolaid drinkers feel the same.
There are times when I not only understand how the Germans felt in the build up to WWII, but also how America felt in the build up to the Civil War. And how friend, neighbor and family could be on two sides of an issue so strongly.
Too true, and totally typical of the hypocritical swine.
It’s amazing how Americans have been programed to accept the big lies they are being told CONTINUOUSLY.
Obama is a total fraud, no background,nothing but support from left wing radicals who intend to destroy our infrastructure and replace it with a socailist welfare state with the intent on heading for a Marxist Eutopia.
The left wing radical press loves this clown, that’s all he is. In November the press will complain how we’ve hurt this liberators effort to take our society to the next level. There is no bigger fool than a leftist genius who ignores facts to reach conclusions only an absolute idiot could arrive at.
When unemployment reaches 20% Obama and his leftist supporters will still be blaming Bush all while the leftists in Washington continue to pull the rug out from under America (it’s capitalism’s fault, we need time for CHANGE).
Obama goes sooner or later because America is just starting to get it but leberal leftist fools will never get it.
Lincoln:
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
“Yeah, so he can be horrible to the space industry, just as long as he pronounces “nuclear” properly.”
It sucks when you are prejudiced against Texans and the space program which put many Texans on the moon.
"YOU STUPID REPUBLICANS HATE PRESIDENT OBAMA BECAUSE HE'S BLACK! AT LEAST HE'S NOT AN IDIOT LIKE YOUR FRIEND BUSH! HE STOLE THE ELECTION, YOU KNOW!"
Civil discourse is gone.
What space race? The shuttle is ending this year or early next year. The return to the moon was 10 years away - if you believe NASA. Fifteen years is more likely. What was NASA planning on doing with all the mission control people and the astronauts and the people at Kennedy in the interim other than provide them paychecks?
Libs and progressive republicans hate the idea of space and colonies. It is all about control,just imagine a human race turned loose in the solar system..........they will be out of arms reach and rich, gov't will not own them, they will have the high ground.
Colonies, with unlimited resources, become super powers.
This is the real reason, they want us trapped in this gravity well, control, low earth orbit and false promises of break through exploration will only work so long.
Good points. Hadn’t considered that.
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