Sunday, February 28, 2010

Obama Administration Kills 23,000 Jobs

Obama’s Space Policies Are Short Sided

Florida Today - 23,000 now expected to lose jobs after shuttle retirement

The Space Shuttle is being retired and Barack Obama has cancelled the Constellation program that was to be the Space Shuttle’s replacement. The cost, 23,000 jobs lost. The damage to ‘National Security’ is incalculable.

Barack Obama’s ignorance of the importance of space power is unbelievable. A paper published by the White House, A National Security Strategy for a New Century, October 1998 said the following…

Space has emerged as a new global information utility with extensive political, diplomatic, military, and economic implications for the United States. Unimpeded access to and use of space is essential for protecting U.S. national security and promoting our prosperity.

Let me repeat part of that..

‘Unimpeded access to and use of space is essential for protecting U.S. national security and promoting our prosperity.’

It’s already obvious to me that the President of the United States cares little for national security or the nation’s prosperity. He’s ruining everything else, might as well add manned space flight to the list.

If you want to read the importance of maintaining our dominance in space you should read this paper by Lt Col Mark E. Harter, USAF.

Ten Propositions Regarding Space Power

The paper deals with the military aspects of ‘Space Power’ and the significance to ‘National Security.’

Friday, January 29, 2010

Quote of the Day

I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space.

British Theoretical Physicist - Stephen Hawking

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Obama - Axe to NASA Workers

And you thought he wanted to save jobs! Yeah, right, Obama is all talk, no action!

Orlando Sentinel - Obama aims to ax moon mission

NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.

When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its bigger brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.

There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.