NASA.. The Ultimate Outsourcing

[Murf76]

The problem is that most Conservatives for the past 5 years or so have nothing but complaints about the expenses required to do 'boring experiments' in space.

It's been placed on the back-burner.

Huh? It's leftists who do the whining, about how NASA money ought to be spent on the poor.

 

[bobcollum]

The problem is that most Conservatives for the past 5 years or so have nothing but complaints about the expenses required to do 'boring experiments' in space.

It's been placed on the back-burner.

Huh? It's leftists who do the whining, about how NASA money ought to be spent on the poor.

I've never heard that one before.

I've heard taking funding from the defense budget, but never NASA.

 

[Murf76]

The problem is that most Conservatives for the past 5 years or so have nothing but complaints about the expenses required to do 'boring experiments' in space.

It's been placed on the back-burner.

Huh? It's leftists who do the whining, about how NASA money ought to be spent on the poor.

I've never heard that one before.

I've heard taking funding from the defense budget, but never NASA.

I remember quite a bit of discussion during the 2008 election. Not necessarily on this board, but I can't tell you how many lefties I noted complaining about how funding NASA wasn't as important as "feeding people". What's ironic is that we can all be taken out any minute by cosmic disaster we're unprepared for, no matter how well-fed we might be, and that our continuity as a species is at risk, tied to this planet as it is. And it doesn't take into account how many patents have been created on goods that improve our lives since NASA's inception.

 

[Plasmaball]

No, I would have preferred that we use the money we spent paying off Obama's campaign supporters to our own space program. Instead, he gave taxpayer dollars to his friends and caused somewhere in the neighborhood of 7500 layoffs in the space industry. So when Obama stands there screeching about Bain destroying jobs, people need to remember all of the jobs that Obama has destroyed or caused to be destroyed by bad policies.

If you are trying to become board moron, you need to use some flair.....toss in some commies and socialists....

Bless you honey, but we have TM , rdean, and you nicely filling that position. Why don't you toss out TeaBaggers and Wingnuts. We haven't heard enough of those yet.

Im more conservative than you.

 

[bobcollum]

Huh? It's leftists who do the whining, about how NASA money ought to be spent on the poor.

I've never heard that one before.

I've heard taking funding from the defense budget, but never NASA.

I remember quite a bit of discussion during the 2008 election. Not necessarily on this board, but I can't tell you how many lefties I noted complaining about how funding NASA wasn't as important as "feeding people". What's ironic is that we can all be taken out any minute by cosmic disaster we're unprepared for, no matter how well-fed we might be, and that our continuity as a species is at risk, tied to this planet as it is. And it doesn't take into account how many patents have been created on goods that improve our lives since NASA's inception.

I guess there are some evidently, but like anyone else that thinks it should be done away with, they're idiots.

 

[VaYank5150]

If we want to talk about outsourcing.
(Yes, I know that private enterprise will soon pick up the slack but it's just wrong that the USA must depend on Russia to get into space )
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Next American woman heads for space -- on this Russian rocket
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By ANDREW MALCOLM

Posted 09:14 AM ET

Now, here's some real Obama outsourcing.

This morning, Kazakhstan time, the next mission to the International Space Station successfully blasted off carrying the usual trio -- a Russian commander, an astronaut from the international community and an American in a seat rented by NASA since the retirement of the last U.S. space shuttle a year ago this month.

Why are you blaming this on Obama?

Retirement
Atlantis begins the last mission of the Space Shuttle programMain article: Space Shuttle retirement
The Space Shuttle program was extended several times beyond its originally-envisioned 15 year life span because of the delays in building the United States space station in low Earth orbit — a project which eventually evolved into the International Space Station. It was formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration.[8]. However, the final Shuttle launch was that of Atlantis on July 8, 2011. According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program

 

[bobcollum]

If we want to talk about outsourcing.
(Yes, I know that private enterprise will soon pick up the slack but it's just wrong that the USA must depend on Russia to get into space )
****************************************************

Next American woman heads for space -- on this Russian rocket
55 Comments
By ANDREW MALCOLM

Posted 09:14 AM ET

Now, here's some real Obama outsourcing.

This morning, Kazakhstan time, the next mission to the International Space Station successfully blasted off carrying the usual trio -- a Russian commander, an astronaut from the international community and an American in a seat rented by NASA since the retirement of the last U.S. space shuttle a year ago this month.

Why are you blaming this on Obama?

Retirement
Atlantis begins the last mission of the Space Shuttle programMain article: Space Shuttle retirement
The Space Shuttle program was extended several times beyond its originally-envisioned 15 year life span because of the delays in building the United States space station in low Earth orbit — a project which eventually evolved into the International Space Station. It was formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration.[8]. However, the final Shuttle launch was that of Atlantis on July 8, 2011. According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

Everything is Obama's fault, you no get memo?

 

[VaYank5150]

If we want to talk about outsourcing.
(Yes, I know that private enterprise will soon pick up the slack but it's just wrong that the USA must depend on Russia to get into space )
****************************************************

Next American woman heads for space -- on this Russian rocket
55 Comments
By ANDREW MALCOLM

Posted 09:14 AM ET

Now, here's some real Obama outsourcing.

This morning, Kazakhstan time, the next mission to the International Space Station successfully blasted off carrying the usual trio -- a Russian commander, an astronaut from the international community and an American in a seat rented by NASA since the retirement of the last U.S. space shuttle a year ago this month.

Why are you blaming this on Obama?

Retirement
Atlantis begins the last mission of the Space Shuttle programMain article: Space Shuttle retirement
The Space Shuttle program was extended several times beyond its originally-envisioned 15 year life span because of the delays in building the United States space station in low Earth orbit — a project which eventually evolved into the International Space Station. It was formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration.[8]. However, the final Shuttle launch was that of Atlantis on July 8, 2011. According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

Everything is Obama's fault, you no get memo?

Oh, so like when Obama inherited Bush's economy and didn't turn it around immediately? Similar...

 

[ScienceRocks]

The problem is that most Conservatives for the past 5 years or so have nothing but complaints about the expenses required to do 'boring experiments' in space.

It's been placed on the back-burner.

Huh? It's leftists who do the whining, about how NASA money ought to be spent on the poor.

How about cutting the military some and ending the stupid wars to pay for Nasa? Nasa is worth far more to our advancement than some stupid war that can't be won. We don't remain number one through pissing in the wind. Nasa is a good part of the reason we're the super power we're today...This is why we lead in science and our military is powerful.

We do that by advancing our science and pushing idea's-- unlike watching our sons and daughters being killed by the taliban, that we're trying to make peace with under the table. Hell, if we could find a way to better our schools, I'd be for it...We're not the same country as we were 50 years ago, which might make it hard.

Finding a sound way of growing our economy
Increasing our schools ability to create knowledge
Research like Nasa, JPL, etc
Research portions of the military

This is the most important things that America must keep in place if we wish to remain a super power.