Obama has removed his previous execution order for the space program

[groovychk]

In a speech in Titusville, Florida, just outside of the Kennedy Space Center, Obama said he has told his staff to find another offset to fund his early education program. He has formally removed the statement that he would use money from the NASA Constellation program to pay for his plan. It has already been deleted from the documentation on his website.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/obama-revokes-f.html


Thank goodness.

Comments

[astrixas.livejournal.com]

Ahh yes, yet another thing he flip flopped on to pander to people and get votes :)

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

Heh - well it's better than saying he *will* kill it.
It's likely that he's gonna be president.

[kyrie1618.livejournal.com]

Of all the things a civilization can spend money on, NASA is one of the best. I love it.

Sinclair said it best. In about five billion years the Sun's core will run out and Earth will be burnt to a cinder. If we haven't left by then, there will be no more people.

Of course, there's always asteroids, comets, gamma ray bursts, supernovae, solar flares, etc in the meantime. I'll be amazed if we make it to Earthdeath.

My money is on using general assemblers to colonize the stars and then uploading ourselves in a high-speed digital squawk to a station able to reconstruct copies. We'll go interstellar by "beaming up", not by burning antimatter fuel in exotic engines.

But NASA is working on these things! Whether we wind up colonizing space or not, we need to get the stations out there in the first place so we can have the option! That means orbital elevator, space probes, ion drives, solar panels in space, asteroid mining, the whole works.

Got a long way to go and a short time to get there.