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Wow, you are really stretching for this one. The original poster did, though not in the original post.
Trying to make the article itself as the OP is really weird, like it hacked Roy's account and posted itself.
Your willful ignorance is downright comedy gold at this point.
Roy was quite obviously talking about the shuttle replacement program when he said that Obama "killed" our space program.
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I do wish our leader had realized what he killed when he ordered the death of our space program but he needed the money spent on that for some of his social programs, I guess.
I think it's you that jumped the gun and didn't quite understand what you read.
Roy was quite obviously talking about the shuttle replacement program when he said that Obama "killed" our space program.
Read it again:
I think it's you that jumped the gun and didn't quite understand what you read.
Going along with Krauthammer is foolish to progs. I sometimes wonder why they don't ever say much about what he says in one of his columns. It is a cinch that he has more knowledge about most of these things like the space program than any of THEM. At least he has the advanced degrees to be ahead of them.
The US marked the finish of her space flight superiority coming to an end with a fly by of WashingtonDC by the last shuttle. Of course, shuttles couldn't fly but this time it rode piggy back on a 747 for the whole trip. Think how sad it will be to go to the museum to see that last gasp effort of the US in space. Of course, the exploration is in good hands now since China and Russia gladly took over the task.
***Is there a better symbol of willed American decline? The pity is not Discovery’s retirement — beautiful as it was, the shuttle proved too expensive and risky to operate — but that it died without a successor. The planned follow-on — the Constellation rocket-capsule program to take humans back into orbit and from there to the moon — was suddenly canceled in 2010. And with that, control of manned spaceflight was gratuitously ceded to Russia and China.***
So now the right is upset with Obama for not spending more money? Do we need any more evidence that these people are against anything and everything Obama says and does?
Even if something was a Republican idea last year, if Obama says he's in favor of it this year, they're suddenly against it.
I knew some kids like you back in the 80s who really loved those Space Camps and all of them got involved in the space program. It is now gone and will soon be forgotten in this country.
Some of the things that came out of NASA because of the space program, and there were thousands are WD40, and other lubricants that could withstand the cold, I know the young man, young then, who devised the first space suit that could be worn and allow elimination of bodily wastes, not a big deal today but back then it allowed the first orbiting of the Earth.
I do wish our leader had realized what he killed when he ordered the death of our space program but he needed the money spent on that for some of his social programs, I guess.
Well I guess it will be time for private industry to step in and pick up the slack. After all that what Conservatives keep saying. That private industry can do things better than government.
The US marked the finish of her space flight superiority coming to an end with a fly by of WashingtonDC by the last shuttle. Of course, shuttles couldn't fly but this time it rode piggy back on a 747 for the whole trip. Think how sad it will be to go to the museum to see that last gasp effort of the US in space. Of course, the exploration is in good hands now since China and Russia gladly took over the task.
***Is there a better symbol of willed American decline? The pity is not Discovery’s retirement — beautiful as it was, the shuttle proved too expensive and risky to operate — but that it died without a successor. The planned follow-on — the Constellation rocket-capsule program to take humans back into orbit and from there to the moon — was suddenly canceled in 2010. And with that, control of manned spaceflight was gratuitously ceded to Russia and China.***
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