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Originally Posted by spaceref
In announcing its $19.0 billion FY 2011 NASA budget today, the Obama Administration has made it very clear that it intends to attempt a paradigm shift in the way that America explores and utilizes space.
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Oh wonderful. The ex-community organizer from Chicago is going to play rocket scientist. Yes, please Obama. Tell the organization who literally wrote the book on going to the moon and then went there how it should be done. Tell thousands of us engineers with advanced degrees in aerospace, computer science, mathematics, physics, mechanical & electrical engineering how it's supposed to work. Because we're just too stupid.
Hi I'm Barack Obama. I stayed at a Holiday Inn and I can show you guys how to really run a space program.
Let's cancel Ares 1 and Orion, Nasa's next rocket, which has
actually flown, in favor of another rocket that hasn't flown yet. And even if it does fly it won't measure up to what Orion could be capable of.
Let's also cancel Ares V, the heavy lift launch vehicle we need to get beyond low earth orbit, because low earth orbit is our goal. Let's research how to build heavy lift vehicles and partner with other countries because we can learn so much from their non-existant heavy lift launchers.
Pay no attention to that Saturn V on display over at JSC and KSC that was built using technology from 45 years ago.
Let's cut Nasa's space exploration program, which was only short $3 billion, and end Nasa's shuttle fleet. THEN we can add a $billion to Nasa's budget and direct them to take temperature readings and research rocket technologies they already know about for some nebulous undefined far off mission. That way for $2 billion less we can have nothing instead of a lunar program which we can use to learn to harness the resources of the solar system and tap in to Helium-3 from the moon which could power the US for a year using 40 tons of the stuff.
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Dumbass