Posted on 01/14/2015 1:41:30 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Now that the Republicans have taken over Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will be chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Competitiveness, which oversees the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Cruz issued a press release on Wednesday outlining his plans for the space agency. In his statement, which was titled "Focus NASA on Its Core Mission: Exploring Space, and More of It," Cruz said he wants to expand the US space program.
"In 1962, President John F. Kennedy laid down a marker for space exploration that inspired a generation of Americans to reach for the stars, recognizing that the race to the heavens was nothing less than a crucial front in the battle between freedom and tyranny," Cruz said.
Cruz, who is widely seen as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, went on to argue that NASA's partnership with Russia on the International Space Station has endangered American space exploration and innovation.
"More than 50 years later, we have lost sight of that clarion call," Cruz's statement said. "Russia’s status as the current gatekeeper of the International Space Station could threaten our capability to explore and learn, stunting our capacity to reach new heights and share innovations with free people everywhere. The United States should work alongside our international partners, but not be dependent on them. We should once again lead the way for the world in space exploration."(continued)
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- But NASA is now run “from his ass” by Hussein 2 Junior and we are depending on the Russkies for taxi service while Hussein 2 Junior continues to create problems with Vlad Putin -
Disagree.
Federal engineering and intelligence are good things. But there’s a sharp divide in taxpayer funding thereafter.
Certainly you’re not mocking the complexity of a good recipe?
And a number of folks here have found a potential way to keep up the perennial whining about not having a conservative candidate to vote for by dumping on one our best possibilities because of faulty synapse actions.
I’ll have to disagree with Ted on this one. The once-great NASA has become nothing but a nest of bureaucrats who spend their time trolling for taxpayer dollars. There is only one way to save the US space program: kill NASA and start over with a real space program, not one based from a Muslim outreach bureaucracy.
Caliph Hussein isn,t even JV material...
I hear your complaint and it should be noted the current piss poor state of NASA is the direct result of piss poor leadership and oversight, Cruz is the kind of leader that can restore NASA to its original glory.
Tax dollars spent on NASA Space Exploration prior to obama neutering it has provided enormous benefits to America and the world, our return on tax dollars spent has been a hundred fold plus over its life time and Cruz wants NASA on that path with purpose again, he’s saying abandon the current state of squandering tax dollars to be wasted on the impossible socialization of islam. The exploration of space and the rewards awaiting have as of yet only just begun, we must once again assume leadership in world of space exploration.
I suspect Cruz wisely and aggressively sought out the appointment to NASA it is an extremely important position, thanks 2DV for this post.
I think you’re badly overstating the benefits that NASA has returned to the U.S. economy for the past couple of decades. Any future benefits will be provided by the private sector as it expands into the business of space travel. My fear is that NASA will be expanded primarily because people consider it embarassing that the U.S. uses Russian rockets to reach the space station. And that NASA will be tasked to find the solution rather than SpaceX or some private company, resulting in solutions that are horribly overpriced and terribly behind schedule.
Think of it as the military. Do you want to replace the Army with 100% Blackwater contracts?
I got a 455 Rocket!!!
Whoa!
Watch the curves... ;-)
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