This is amusing because Obama hasn't valued science, technology, or engineering AT ALL since he's been president, nor has he done anything he promised to do in this speech. In fact, he's done the exact opposite. This is just such a bunch of bullshit.
The fucking cheek of this puppet is unreal. This man seemed like the real deal until the second he set foot in the white house. His disgusting uninspiring space "policy" (a word itself that just means political bullshit) is sickening. He has killed NASA for another decade. Newt Gingrich really is the last hope for americas leadership in space exploration. VOTE FOR HIM!
Russia also blew a fortune on this, and now China. Sometimes it is better to forgo false pride by stepping away from something that does not benefit Americans in reality then to keep at it and blow away the reserves meaninglessly.
Things like encouraging American brands to be Made in the USA again, raising the standards of local education and providing more opportunities for students to enter college are way more praiseworthy than something that is science fantasy in the minds of most people.
What Bush and Obama did was actually right. NASA should be at best funded by private interests, since the US and A under JFK had already made the point to the world in the 60s by successfully sending the first man on the moon. Subsequent research year after year thereafter had only been extremely costly and had failed, again at taxpayers' expense, to uncover traces of life or livability on the moon and the other planets in the solar system.
I wonder how those Obama supporters are thinking and feeling now, considering what has become of the Space Program under Obama's watch.
And, while we decommission the shuttles and terminate the STS program, we hear news of Russia's Soyuz rockets failing to deliver crucial supplies to the ISS by crashing after launch.
And this is the same platform we are going to be trusting to send our astronauts up there?
@Watcher3223 Nasa is just shifting there focus from lousy earth-orbit missions to mars and beyond missions, which is the next logical step, earth-orbit missions are becoming corporate-run now.
"Nasa is just shifting there focus from lousy earth-orbit missions to mars and beyond mission"
That was the focus when Constellation was being developed before it was cancelled.
And, the issue isn't so much that STS and Constellation were canceled.
Cancelling Constellation and then decommissioning the space shuttle fleet meant having no other domestic space transportation program in place of any kind for the next few years, forcing NASA to employ Soyuz.
For privatized transportation systems, it won't be until about 2015 (about the same time Constellation was scheduled, but it factored keeping the STS program online until Constellation was ready) when such a system will be available, and that's assuming that things stay on or go ahead of schedule.
Between getting a new system going and having it operational with no existing system to assume the workload means having surplus workers whose skills and services were rendered unnecessary after the STS program was terminated.
Of course, people are still needed to develop and build new vehicles, but there's no need for people to maintain, service and manage spacecraft since there are none at this time.
Ultimately, a Florida and Texas brain drain until at least 2015.
In summary, Constellation or Dream Chaser, STS should have remained operational to effectively support the ISS until a replacement was ready.
The shuttles still had plenty of life left and all that's needed to keep them safely in flight is to foster and maintain an environment where you had to prove conditions were safe (Challenger and Columbia happened because complacency fostered an environment where safety was assumed and you had to prove an unsafe condition existed).
This is amusing because Obama hasn't valued science, technology, or engineering AT ALL since he's been president, nor has he done anything he promised to do in this speech. In fact, he's done the exact opposite. This is just such a bunch of bullshit.
shattertheearth 15 hours ago
The fucking cheek of this puppet is unreal. This man seemed like the real deal until the second he set foot in the white house. His disgusting uninspiring space "policy" (a word itself that just means political bullshit) is sickening. He has killed NASA for another decade. Newt Gingrich really is the last hope for americas leadership in space exploration. VOTE FOR HIM!
JB9208 1 week ago
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Russia also blew a fortune on this, and now China. Sometimes it is better to forgo false pride by stepping away from something that does not benefit Americans in reality then to keep at it and blow away the reserves meaninglessly.
Things like encouraging American brands to be Made in the USA again, raising the standards of local education and providing more opportunities for students to enter college are way more praiseworthy than something that is science fantasy in the minds of most people.
SeventhSun 1 month ago
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What Bush and Obama did was actually right. NASA should be at best funded by private interests, since the US and A under JFK had already made the point to the world in the 60s by successfully sending the first man on the moon. Subsequent research year after year thereafter had only been extremely costly and had failed, again at taxpayers' expense, to uncover traces of life or livability on the moon and the other planets in the solar system.
SeventhSun 1 month ago
I wonder how those Obama supporters are thinking and feeling now, considering what has become of the Space Program under Obama's watch.
And, while we decommission the shuttles and terminate the STS program, we hear news of Russia's Soyuz rockets failing to deliver crucial supplies to the ISS by crashing after launch.
And this is the same platform we are going to be trusting to send our astronauts up there?
Watcher3223 6 months ago
@Watcher3223 Nasa is just shifting there focus from lousy earth-orbit missions to mars and beyond missions, which is the next logical step, earth-orbit missions are becoming corporate-run now.
TheAccountnamestolen 4 months ago
@TheAccountnamestolen
"Nasa is just shifting there focus from lousy earth-orbit missions to mars and beyond mission"
That was the focus when Constellation was being developed before it was cancelled.
And, the issue isn't so much that STS and Constellation were canceled.
Cancelling Constellation and then decommissioning the space shuttle fleet meant having no other domestic space transportation program in place of any kind for the next few years, forcing NASA to employ Soyuz.
Watcher3223 4 months ago
@TheAccountnamestolen
For privatized transportation systems, it won't be until about 2015 (about the same time Constellation was scheduled, but it factored keeping the STS program online until Constellation was ready) when such a system will be available, and that's assuming that things stay on or go ahead of schedule.
Watcher3223 4 months ago
@TheAccountnamestolen
Between getting a new system going and having it operational with no existing system to assume the workload means having surplus workers whose skills and services were rendered unnecessary after the STS program was terminated.
Of course, people are still needed to develop and build new vehicles, but there's no need for people to maintain, service and manage spacecraft since there are none at this time.
Ultimately, a Florida and Texas brain drain until at least 2015.
Watcher3223 4 months ago
@TheAccountnamestolen
In summary, Constellation or Dream Chaser, STS should have remained operational to effectively support the ISS until a replacement was ready.
The shuttles still had plenty of life left and all that's needed to keep them safely in flight is to foster and maintain an environment where you had to prove conditions were safe (Challenger and Columbia happened because complacency fostered an environment where safety was assumed and you had to prove an unsafe condition existed).
Watcher3223 4 months ago
Everythin is Bush's fult to him. His own stupidity is Bush's fault. Cancer is Bush's fault. If he gets constipated, it's Bush's fault.
pseudohippie55 6 months ago
every time i see this dick i feel sck
peckiledorf 6 months ago 5
Lord that idiot loves to hear himself talking.
charityGSHS 6 months ago
...And then Barry turned NASA into a muslim outreach center / movement / whatever. Lets send Barry to URANUS.
computerpurple 6 months ago 4
"global climate change" = wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
morons.
biozamadotcom 6 months ago
And now it's gone, and theres a bunch of astronaughts stuck in orbit.
Fuck you Obama!
sethzky77 6 months ago
Obama touches his face a lot. It's a documented trait of someone, who is lying.
TwilightZoneClone 6 months ago
"I still remembers", This ape can't even speak English.
There is no doubt Obama is working hard to destroy the space program.
TwilightZoneClone 6 months ago
what an ass hole
mycaddigo 6 months ago
He's a great liar. Wonder how many of those chumps support him now?
myaim07 6 months ago 2
Obama's sole purpose of becoming President was to destroy America. Houston, we have a problem.
USoSilly2Me 6 months ago 2
Hows that hope and change working out for you ?
herrulrich 6 months ago 2