Yeah, Obama's been SO good for NASA. Tel that to all those that used to work in the space program. We just had to send our personnel up with the Russians.
allow me to inform you. Any Republican should be 110% on board with Obama. First off the Orbiter work force was highly over paid and in my opinion could have worked a lot harder over the years. the rest of the work force is still employed like myself. I diversified my resume over the years, many on the Orbiter program never did and now they are looking for work. When I need support over seas those guys were heading home at 2pm every day. It was time for a shake up, for the money being paid out was far too much for the work that was being done, truly a GOP value.
The Orbiter was over budget on DAY ONE, so was Bush II's Ares program. It was over budget before it even hit the pad for crying out loud! So, Obama cut he program, it was not financially fluid, it was going to be the Orbiter all over again. Once Again, Obama saved money where it was being wasted.
Allow me to remind you of all the other lull's in the space programs history, go look up the time between the Gemini and its following programs, were in that same stretch. Have faith, we are hard at work every day all day to make American the #1 in space, We will keep the high ground.
I work with the Russian space agency closely as the radar site on Ascension island is a huge asset to all of us. We are in good hands with the Russians until we can get a budget that is what NASA needs. Give us 1/4 of what the GOP spent in Iraq, we will make some huge strides. Tell Congress to do its job and fund NASA properly
Obama made choices in where to allocate money. That 90 Billion he gave to his campaign bundlers for their now defunked green energy programs would have funded a lot of NASA jobs. Obama wasted a fortune and then wants to complain that he doesn't have enough money and needs to take more. Irresponsible is a kind word for him.