Obama doesn't care about the space program at all. He said this multiple times when he was first running in the primary and has clearly demonstrated lack of vision and leadership of any kind since taking the White House. Blaming the Senate is therefore misguided. It is not the Senates job to provide leadership to NASA. It is the President's job. That's part of the job description of Chief Executive.
BS
One word Augustine Commission!
Best thing any politician has ever done. I wished politicians always made important decisions like that.
NASA is lost at sea, and the burden of leadership is squarely on the Chief Executive--Barack Obama.
That is BS.
Commercial crew is a huge success. Pretty much everything else that NASA has money enough to do is also a huge success. The only thing that sucks is the SLS which unfortuantely sucks up most of the money and is the result of shameless Shelby inserting money into a bill at last minute (multi billion USD earmark).
The president could have vetoed it, but it would have basically delayed everything by a year.
Most people who form space advocacy and are interested to support space efforts, think NASA is near dead and buried. NASA is awash with billions of funds, but no vision.
NO VISION!!!
It would take very little for a President, or any presidential contender to make NASA relevant. Direct funds to advanced propulsion of any sort. Support TRITON. Support Nautilus-X. Support anything that grants real "vision".
Obama just can't manage.
I wasn't in support of Constillation, but that was a lot better than no interest at all in space exploration.
Obama is a nice guy, who wants to see the far left agenda secured. But really, he's an idiot and ignoramous when it comes to what is necessary for the US to reach out and lead this next century.
And of course, you don't give a shit that the US lead, because you're not a US citizen.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Most people who form space advocacy and are interested to support space efforts, think NASA is near dead and buried.
Not true!
A lot of people that I personally know that are space advocates were in support of the administrations plan. Andrwe Gasser from Teaparty in Space, e.g. People are realy upset about how congress was handling things. Obama cant directly fund such projects, because there is no money for it. But in case you have not heard, NIAC is actually funding (on a lower level) quite a few advanced propulsion concepts and research on those.
"Obama should execute his previously stated vision for NASA by waving his magic wand and making the GOP controlled House and GOP super minority Senate to back him." Obama can have vision pouring out of his ass and he wouldn't get what he wants, it's a do-nothing congress and a very unfavorably balanced senate.
Skippy again granting idiot skill opines with other people's money.
Such a douchbag
Running out of arguments and having to resort to personal attacks. How clever you are!
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It is completely true, that Obama is not sympathetic with any space development.
Again: Augustine commission!!!!
Also he visited the SpaceX launch facility at the cape. He also visited their plant, I believe. The direction of the original plan was exactly what NASA would have needed. Build a space infrastructure, do research and technology development, as well as science routine operations done by private companies. There is finally an emerging space infrastructure as a result of this. So many new companies and finally also venture capital for space firms!!!