Obama to outsource space program to Russians

[theHawk]

Leave it to the Marxist-in-Chief to give space back to the Russians.

Armstrong: Obama hurting space effort - PATRICK GAVIN | POLITICO CLICK

Former astronaut Neil Armstrong has issued a strongly worded rebuke of President Barack Obama, criticizing the president for proposed revisions to the U.S.' space program.


Armstrong, along with astronauts James Lovell and Eugene Cernan, called the proposal “devastating” in a letter obtained by NBC News. Read below for the full text:



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"America’s only path to low Earth orbit and the International Space Station will now be subject to an agreement with Russia to purchase space on their Soyuz (at a price of over 50 million dollars per seat with significant increases expected in the near future) until we have the capacity to provide transportation for ourselves. The availability of a commercial transport to orbit as envisioned in the President’s proposal cannot be predicted with any certainty, but is likely to take substantially longer and be more expensive than we would hope.


"It appears that we will have wasted our current ten plus billion dollar investment in Constellation and, equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to recreate the equivalent of what we will have discarded.


For The United States, the leading space faring nation for nearly half a century, to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to go beyond Earth orbit for an indeterminate time into the future, destines our nation to become one of second or even third rate stature. While the President's plan envisages humans traveling away from Earth and perhaps toward Mars at some time in the future, the lack of developed rockets and spacecraft will assure that ability will not be available for many years.

 

[Dr Gregg]

Leave it to the whiny hacks to bitch about cutting spending, which is what they always whine and complain about it. Now that he actually cuts something, you whine and complain.

pathetic hacks. you'll complain and bitch and whine regardless of what Obama does

 

[theHawk]

Leave it to the whiny hacks to bitch about cutting spending, which is what they always whine and complain about it. Now that he actually cuts something, you whine and complain.

pathetic hacks. you'll complain and bitch and whine regardless of what Obama does

If you bothered to read the article you'd see he isn't cutting spending. He is outsourcing to Russia. We're still going to pay to go to space, only instead of paying Americans we'll just fork over the money to Russia.