White House: No Muslim outreach for space agency

NASA used to mean brave people exploring space. Now it suffers from having the do nothing leadership of Obama.

Bruce

A commenter said: "It's a good thing that Charley, (a great guy, BTW) is adept at crying. He will be crying a lot after he hears what the POTUS plans to do with NASA.

This "Can't do" President likely plans to gut NASA's budget and lower the exploration sights of the agency to a focus on climate change and orbital test tube experiments.

Do we want to see US astronauts joining millions of other skilled Americans who are already in the unemployment line while our financially burdensome and ineffective technocratic social services infrastructure continues to encourage millions of Americans to live out lives of chronic dependency and irresponsibility?

We need a President who understands that NASA needs to be in the business of robust space exploration and not just as a theoretical science funding resources.

NASA is supposed to be in the business of building that "bridge to the stars" that will ultimately save us from the inevitable mass extinction that our descendants (or us!)will face. It is foolish to postpone construction of that bridge by restraining the incredible potential of that collection of engineers, innovators and skilled crafts-persons who are NASA.

Apollo was the best stimulus investment that the USA ever made. Those 1960 NASA dollars are still multiplying through our economy today.

Posted by: Jim_McDade | July 22, 2009 2:02 PM"