You're reaching again.... Nowhere in this article does it even imply that Obama wants to cancel all funding for space travel...
He want's to make what could be some unpopular cuts (the Ares program) But saying he wants to cancel all funding is simply untrue. -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 1:52 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: If you want to view some funny fiction... My bad. Obama want's to cancel all FUNDING for space travel and leave it to the private sector which we all know he hates. We also know Larry hates privately funded science, ask him about all the private money used to research ESC :) On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hmmm.. not quite > > http://www.space.com/news/nasa-budget-billion-boost-sn-100125.html > > " WASHINGTON - NASA will not be getting the $1 billion budget boost civil > space advocates had hoped to see when President Barack Obama sends his 2011 > spending proposal to Congress Feb. 1, requiring the U.S. space agency to > make even tougher than expected choices about the future of its manned space > program, according to sources with close ties to the administration. " > > ... > > " An independent panel concluded this past summer that NASA could not afford > to develop the Ares I and a crew carrying capsule dubbed Orion without a > significant budget increase, which the sources said is not in the offing for > 2011 > Meanwhile, Obama will request budget increases for environmental satellites, > education programs, and research and technology development, these sources > said. " > > While yes, NASA is not getting the increase that it wanted, manned space > flight is not being abandoned. Obama wants to push this into the private > sector, which (IMO) is where it should be. It's time for all those NASA > contractors to build their own projects out of NASA's budget and > bureaucracy. > > I believe that the private sector could put man back on the moon and Mars in > half the time that NASA could. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:311214 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
