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

You will have to pry my shovel from my cold dead hands!!!

 

Shovel Face: I had the impression you were a libertarian? I thought you'd be letting out a sigh of relief at no new funding for NASA.

 

If true, this too f'n funny. Clutchfans' very own libertardian warrior is really a government subsidized little piggy sucking at the federal teat.

The cognitivie dissonance must be overwhelming.

 

Why don't you just tell us the real truth behind your motivation:

1) your parents work for NASA as you have previously posted;
2) you live in their basement

 

http://www.islandone.org/Politics/LP.space-dom.html

Would you be agreeable to Texan Ron Paul's principled stance on spending with regards to space programs then?

 

I hear you, but the budget is substantial. Seriously, I know a bit about this. Reorganize, focus your staffing and scientific lines on the problems you want to solve and do what you can with your existing budget. That is not crazy.

The space station is such a clusterfudge that the sooner it is put out of its misery the better. I'm sure that's a majority opinion, scientifically and in terms of new technology innovation (which it never was.) Focus on a new generation of spacecraft and figure out an exit strategy on the space station, the Iraq of NASA programs.

 

^edit: 1988

 

Did he say that or did you read my post? Both of my parents as well as my stepfather worked for NASA or their contractors for quite a long time. My mom is still at NASA.

 

In case you didn't read it or comprehend what was written, I will say it again simply.

Obama is not reducing funding for NASA.

NASA will continue to do its work.

A lack of a funding increase does not equal Obama killing NASA.

Which part don't you understand?

 

He put it in an old post

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?p=2060205&highlight=parents+NASA#post2060205

 

Good Stuff
Good Passion

Rocket River
I beleive we cannot abandon Space Travel as well.
though I like the infrastructure idea

 

The thing is, we can have both and will have both under Obama's budget. NASA is not receiving a cut in funding, so they can continue to do most of the things they are doing now. A couple of years down the line, when the budget looks better, we can increase funding again at which point Constellation and Ares become viable again.

The infrastructure improvements need to happen now because they will have a much more immediate impact on the job market.

 

see, this is one of those times you should read every post in a thread.

I confirmed earlier in this thread that MrMeow...oh sorry...Shovel Face IS a NASA employee....or posting to CF from his parents computer on the grounds of NASA

 

How can they continue to do what they do now without the space shuttle? It ends this year.

 

We have been continuing to do much of what we do with extremely limited space shuttle flights for years. We will continue to get men and materiel to the ISS on Soyuz capsules and Hubble has just been upgraded, so should be OK for a couple of years.

When the economy turns around, I have no doubt that NASA will get the funding for Constellation, but right now it just isn't the right thing to increase funding for NASA at a time when every other government agency is going through a spending freeze.

It truly sucks and will delay many things with regards to the space program, but it will not destroy NASA.

 

Space exploration will continue.

Obama has not reduced NASA's funding.

 

the 3C corridor is finally official here in ohio. i'm pretty excited for it. they expect to break ground immediately, and hope to have it completed in a couple of years. we'll see.