Florida Group Wants To Make Space a 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue (examiner.com)

MarkWhittington writes: According to a story on News 13, an Orlando TV station, Space Florida is working to make space a political issue in the 2016 presidential election. Thus far the campaign for the presidency has been dominated by more mundane issues such as the economy, illegal immigration, and the threat of terrorism. Space Florida, which is "the State of Florida's aerospace economic development agency," is said to be "working with three other battleground states to make sure America's space program is a part of the campaign for president." Presumably one of those states is Texas, which has lots of electoral votes

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Re:What the fuck is with the snark

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I once worked for Rockwell-Collins in the states - I started there shortly after the NASA "incident". What incident? Apparently they were caught - after doing it for many years - billing everything to the shuttle, as a matter of corporate policy. Unlike most contracts Rockwell-Collins gets, there was no cap on the Shuttle project budget. So whenever any project ran over, they just billed the engineers' time to the Shuttle. ;)

NASA does some great stuff in terms of R&D and robotic exploration. But their culture is not a good matchup for developing launch systems, whether in-house or through contractors.