Slashdot Mirror
House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention
TopSpin writes "NASA's Constellation Program and Ares rockets appear to have strong support in Congress. An appropriations bill passed by the House includes language that bars 'any efforts by NASA to cancel or change the current Constellation program without first seeking approval of Congress.' The Administration's appointed NASA leadership is being publicly hostile towards its traditional aerospace affiliations. As Charles Bolden put it to industry execs, 'We are going to be fighting and fussing over the coming year,' and 'Some of you are not going to like me because we are not going to do the same kind of things we've always done.'"
You don't need decades of experience to have an opinion about the usefulness of giving a select few joy rides into space.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Why? Who said?
Don't even try to pull that "lifeboat" crap unless you can find some Eisenhower quote backing that up.
, or if it is that no one knew that Eisenhower was actually a Republican. My guess is most people here didn't know he was a Republican since he sounds so different than the current breed.
Well there's a reason for that. Eisenhower came from the era when the military had no political affiliation, and didn't vote. Not because they couldn't, but considered it an affront to civilian control. Because of this, Eisenhower was actually heavily lobbied by BOTH political parties to be their nominee for president. As this Life Magazine article from April 12, 1948 entitled "The Democratic Plan to Draft Eisenhower", says, "With this fact also generally accepted most of the important Democrats of all factions, even within the White House, last week agreed on a thrid fact: the one man who can unite the party and take it to victory is General Dwight D. Eisenhower."
Also, the Republican party went off the tracks back in the 60s with Nixon and the Southern Strategy that primarily is based on southern racism, militarism, and evangelical Christianity.
a feeble attempt to change the focus from Obama's failure to lead. His predecessors [...] The theme of the current administration is "It's not my fault".
His predecessor was lying warmonger who invaded a country under false pretenses so his buddies could make lots of money. And when the other shoe dropped, he said it wasn't his fault, after all, the "intelligence community" was making all the decisions for him.
He is to be admired or emulated as syphilis is to be sought.
You can't take the sky from me...
And that language boils down to: "no changes". Subcontract a part of the crew module out to Russia, Germany or France? No. Not unless Congress approves. Even if it'll get Ares off the ground sooner...nope. Cancel or delay Ares I to concentrate on Ares V? Nope. Even though Russia already has, and will continue to have, the capability to put people in orbit thus rendering Ares I redundant, while what's really needed is the heavy-lift capability of Ares V.
What a laugh! The whole motivation for keeping foreigners off of the critical path for Ares was the rather dismal performance of the Space Station partners on their parts. The good Senator has done rightly to restrain the nieve and reckless Obama Administration. I find it rather embarrassing to see Soyuz passengers wedged in to that primitive and outdated vehicle.
an ill wind that blows no good