Re: Do We Have The Political Will To Support Bush's Moon/Mars Exploration Program?

In article <QNfXe.5332$i86.4869@trndny01>, Ray <vze3gz45@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>"Cardman" <do-not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:57:03 -0400, Josephfromri@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>>Yes Or No?
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>> Yes...so far.
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>> President Bush seems strongly in favour, where he even made threats to
>> the Senate if NASA's requested funding was not approved.
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>> The Senate recently approved a $16.4 billion budget for NASA by a vote
>> of 91 to 4.
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>> Once the next President takes office, where large scale funding
>> reductions will need to take place to pay back Bush's debts, then this
>> strong support may quickly change.
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>> Time will tell.
>>
>> Cardman.
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> Yes, because any other President who comes in after Bush will
>realize that NASA has one of two choices for directions now and into the
>future; moon, mars and beyond or getting rid of manned spaceflight because
>its a waste to simply orbit the earth for the next 30 years, so yes we will
>have the will to do one of these choices. I dont think the US, reguardless
>of who becomes President in the future, will be stupid enough to cancel
>manned spaceflight, so we will be going to moon, mars and beyond and
>supporting it in the future.
>
The POTUS has to bear in mind the possible cost to his or her
chances of re-election:


Option Cost

Moon and Mars Lots of $ at a time when the US is living off its credit,
plus the potential to high-light gold old American Don't
Know How. Burkina Faso managed to fly just as many space
stations in the 1980s as the US and at a much lower cost.

Cancel Program A million engineers crying out and then suddenly becoming
unemployed. A passel of angry pork managers gunning for the
POTUS.

Same old same
old Nothing that isn't already happening.

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