Obama: 8 Billion For High-Speed Rail, 0 for NASA & JSC

Obama wants Space City to be dead. And the Obama nut lickers just cheer it on. He has no vision, no venture, no balls.

NASA is about SPACE EXPLORATION, you idiot. There is already government organization that monitors earth climate (if you have to pander to the pansy "green" libs): NOAA

"President Obama's decision, if it is indeed to be as is rumored today, leaves NASA and the nation with no program, no plan, and no commitment to any human spaceflight program beyond that of today - the last few flights of the space shuttle to complete the International Space Station," Dr. Mike Griffin, former NASA administrator and now eminent scholar at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said Wednesday. "

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But thanks for the road signs in Ohio, $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs, cash for clunkers, $75 million for "smoking cessation activities", $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program, $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees, $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film, $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that hasn’t been used in 30 years, $1.5 million to erect a suicide-prevention fence to keep people from jumping off the All-American Bridge...(well he will need that one)

White House won't fund NASA moon program

President Obama's budget proposal includes no money for the Ares 1 rocket or Constellation program, sources say. Instead, NASA would be asked to monitor climate change and develop a new rocket.

Reporting from Washington and Cape Canaveral, Fla. - NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there, if President Obama gets his way.

When the White House releases its budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was to return humans to the moon by 2020. The Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to return to the moon. There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases.

"We certainly don't need to go back to the moon," one administration official said.

Instead, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama's plans, NASA will look at developing a "heavy-lift" rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low-Earth orbit. That day will be years away.

The White House will direct NASA to concentrate on Earth-science projects -- principally, researching and monitoring climate change -- and on a new technology research and development program designed to someday enable human exploration of asteroids and the inner solar system.

Everyone interviewed for this article spoke on condition of anonymity, either because they are not authorized to speak for the White House or because they fear for their jobs. All are familiar with the broad sweep of Obama's budget proposal, but none would talk about specific numbers because these are being tightly held by the White House until the release of the budget.

But senior administration officials say the president's proposed spending freeze for some federal agencies is not going to apply to the space agency in this budget. Officials said NASA expected to see some "modest" increase in its current $18.7-billion annual budget -- possibly $200 million to $300 million, but far less than the $1-billion boost agency officials had hoped for.

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I would care about your opinion if you ever had a single one that turned out to be correct.

 

Thanks, but they don't care about Houston, our heritage, and our economy. It's all about allegiance to "The One".

 

"So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward - and so will space.

If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this state, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. Houston, your city of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area."

-JFK 1962




"We don't need no space. Hope and change."

-Obama 2010



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