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Journalist: NASA Administrator Has Short Memory on Changing Space Policy (spacenews.com)
MarkWhittington writes: Recently, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden stated that NASA would be "doomed" if the next president were to deviate in any way from the current Journey to Mars program. Space journalist and founder of the America Space website Jim Hillhouse took exception to Bolden's assertion in a letter to the aerospace newspaper Space News. In the process, Hillhouse provides a good summary of how space policy has evolved during the past five years under the Obama administration.
Apollo as we all know was cancelled it in its 8th year, going massively over budget and producing nothing but non-functioning ICBMs.
What NASA produced was functional but not reusable and expensive but did work, Clinton gave NASA the predecessor to what they should have had in 1997 which they promptly mothballed in 1999 and they probably should have given one to place at the corporate office of Children's Hospital for display because the development of it was made possible through their fund raisers. Everyone is touchy on that subject because the program was cancelled in 1964 over something that happened that was thought to be related to the hit on JFK and it was not. You can thank the banksters for using Mafia on JFK, and I honestly believe there isn't anything Mafia can't fuck up. In short, NASA was doomed in 1964 by Mafia for repeating a crime that originally happened around the turn of last century as all of the development that should have been prompted post 1964 never happened. So you never got the flying cars, alternatively you got a remodeled hotel casino in 1964 to go lose your money in, and aerospace got a shiny new short bus.