Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Obama Would Redirect NASA Funding to Education

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the perhaps-earlier-schooling-isn't-the-answer-either dept.

QuantumG writes "In a recent article on The Space Review, Greg Zsidisin reveals that Barack Obama plans to delay Project Constellation for at least five years, using the redirected funds to nationalize early-education for children under five years old to prepare them for the rigors of kindergarten and beyond, if he is elected president. It is feared that if this happens the Vision for Space Exploration will flounder and that may be the end of human spaceflight altogether."

5 of 357 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I call shenanigans by Cookie3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Source seems to be:
    http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/HQpress/112007%20education%20plan%201.pdf
    barackobama.com, of course, being the official Barack Obama website.
    This link then redirects to the 3cdn hosting site, where the PDF is located.

    --
    present day... present time... hahahaha...
  2. Re:I call shenanigans by toolie · · Score: 3, Informative

    This story has been all over like a month ago. The Orlando Sentinel had a story that they ran where it compared things Obama said outside of Florida to things he said while in Florida. Outside of FL, he goes on about slashing the NASA budget. Then, when talking to people that directly affects, he changes the story to spending less on education and more on NASA to try to get votes.

    Fuck, I hate politicians.

    --
    -- toolie
  3. Re:Not a bad idea by Richard+W.M.+Jones · · Score: 3, Informative

    .... [the X-Prize winner] never came close to leaving Earth's orbit

    They never came close to being in Earth orbit either. That requires 20 times the speed and 60 times the energy than they achieved.

    Rich.

    --
    libguestfs - tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images
  4. Re:That's disappointing by Falstius · · Score: 4, Informative

    My hint for those keeping score at home is that quickly pulling out of Iraq would generate a lot more spare funds.

    The Iraq war is paid for almost exclusively with special funding initiatives, it is not part of the budget. So ending the war won't suddenly free up trillions of dollars for other uses, it will just slow our descent into debt from the Demon Drop speed it is currently.

  5. Re:That's disappointing by ravenshrike · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless you're in an open state of war with said country, which technically speaking the US was, and said country readily breaks the cease-fire, thinking that there's no way in hell you'd end up retaliating. Admittedly, the actual reasons for the invasion were different, but the fact remains that the US and Iraq were still in a state of war.