Originally posted by: FanFiltration
BINGO!
NASA did have plans for a new craft years ago, but the funding for the new programs kept getting shot down from republican lawmakers who had held the majority in congress, as well as a war bent White House. The lay off at NASA is hurting people in my area of Florida big time. It's not just about a spacecraft, it's also about peoples jobs.
BTW, I'm going to go view the final night launch of a Space Shuttle ever. That's in about 9 hours from now. Should be one hell of a show.
FF
Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
another one of our esteemed president's promises not kept, all hail the great bush!
read the article is pretty much spells it out that the lack of funding was because of the whitehouse and bush.
we have no money for space travel since we spent trillions of dollars on a war in Iraq where bin ladin was not there and no wmd.
another one of our esteemed president's promises not kept, all hail the great bush!
read the article is pretty much spells it out that the lack of funding was because of the whitehouse and bush.
we have no money for space travel since we spent trillions of dollars on a war in Iraq where bin ladin was not there and no wmd.
BINGO!
NASA did have plans for a new craft years ago, but the funding for the new programs kept getting shot down from republican lawmakers who had held the majority in congress, as well as a war bent White House. The lay off at NASA is hurting people in my area of Florida big time. It's not just about a spacecraft, it's also about peoples jobs.
BTW, I'm going to go view the final night launch of a Space Shuttle ever. That's in about 9 hours from now. Should be one hell of a show.
FF
Got a source for that? According to what I just read http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800967_2.html Bush has been pushing to get a base on the moon and then have trips go to Mars from there. From that article:
"Such bills, which authorize programs but do not appropriate money, are partly wish lists to be shaped later in spending bills, but the legislation left little doubt that lawmakers now regard Bush's vision as crucial to U.S. space policy.
"The bill is an affirmation of support," said John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute. "But it's also a challenge to the administration to pony up for the transformational space program it outlined two years ago.""
Also, according to this (I know it's a little old) http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive06/Debate_070306.html Nasa was getting a slight increase in funding. It's not what NASA wanted, but it is an increase. It also notes that the White House (the evil Bush administration) wanted 83 million more than what the Congress gave NASA.
Here's another one http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333851,00.html. Looks like the jobs are being cut to refocus on the new craft, which apparently won't require the man power that the 30 year old shuttle requires.