Obama Blamed Bush for Decline of NASA

Obama Administration: Lost in Space
Astronauts are stranded on the space station. America's once-mighty Space Shuttle fleet has been disassembled and mothballed with nothing to replace it. The Russians, once the inferior player in the space race, is the only hope left to rescue the stranded astronauts. No, this isn't the treatment to a B-list summer movie — it is playing out before our eyes.
It never had to be this way. When historians look back on the American space program over the past 5 years, they are bound to scratch their heads and wonder, "what on Earth happened?" Where were our bold strokes of genius that propelled us to the Moon, created a fleet of shuttles that were the workhorses of space — where was the leadership that ensured America's technological dominance in the world? Why did we throw in the towel?
With President Obama allowing the Space Shuttle program to die and laying off thousands who worked lifetimes solidifying its success, we had to turn to our old rivals -- the Russians. This week, the Russians launched a Soyuz rocket filled with supplies bound for the space station. The rocket exploded scattering smoldering debris for miles. The Soyuz is the world's last chance to travel into space. Yes, a rocket designed in 1966 is our last modern operating manned space vehicle. Pathetic.
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http://biggovernment.com/jmeath/2011/08/30/obama-administration-lost-in-space/

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[peckiledorf]

every time i see this dick i feel sck

[computerpurple]

...And then Barry turned NASA into a muslim outreach center / movement / whatever. Lets send Barry to URANUS.

[shattertheearth]

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.

[JB9208]

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!

[Watcher3223]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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.

[TheAccountnamestolen]

@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.

[Watcher3223]

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?