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Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget
The AAAS's ScienceInsider confidently reports that NASA is in line to receive $1 billion more next year. Reader coop0030 sends this quote: "President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the Moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars... The president chose the new direction for the US human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, according to officials familiar with the discussion. NASA would receive an additional $1 billion in 2011 both to get the new launcher on track and to bolster the agency's fleet of robotic Earth-monitoring spacecraft."
Has Obama supported anything with a smaller budget?
Yeah. Your budget. It's now smaller.
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. " ---Henry David Thoreau
I can only hope that this heavy-lift launch system will support a public option with early buy-in and that none of this NASA budget will be appropriated to state-supported abortions. Otherwise, it will apparently have a hard time getting through the senate.
The Iraq war is only 1/15th as expensive as everything else the government does. Someone who only spends 1/15th of their budget on an activity has a hobby, not an addiction.
It's not the cause of the bankruptcy.
Anyway, you can relax. We won the war and the combat troops are coming home. We may keep a (relatively inexpensive) forward force there like we have in Korea and Germany, but the combat is essentially over.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but 1 billion isn't going to give you sharks. It's not going to give you mutant sea bass.
I'd be pleasantly surprised if you get a goldfish with a laser pointer duct taped to it's head.
You have no idea how low my expectations are right now... I'm totally on board with the gold-fish laser pointer. This will rock so hard!
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