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I think the current administration has no choice but to cut back at this point until things improve.
With that being said, which I mentioned in the other post is this:
The US Space Program has usually been less than 1% of the US Budget and yet it provides overwhelming benefits in space exploration, improvement of life technologies, greening of the planet and changing of lives for better stewardship of the planet.
Imagine if the other 99% of the US Budget was invested as wisely and provided as many stunning results. Where we would be today?
I think the current administration has no choice but to cut back at this point until things improve.
With that being said, which I mentioned in the other post is this:
The US Space Program has usually been less than 1% of the US Budget and yet it provides overwhelming benefits in space exploration, improvement of life technologies, greening of the planet and changing of lives for better stewardship of the planet.
Imagine if the other 99% of the US Budget was invested as wisely and provided as many stunning results. Where we would be today?
agree.
This thorough article suggests NASA will have to develop a compelling momentum to get funding for new projects -- something they periodically have had to do; the 2010 budget isnt going to be lavish.
For NASA, the most opposition may be from the people who pay the bills: the public. In a 2005 USA TODAY poll, 58% opposed spending money on a human mission to Mars.
Americans may support human spaceflight, but they don't make it a high priority, says historian Roger Launius of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. Nor do political leaders, he says. "That leaves us in low-Earth orbit for the foreseeable future," Launius says "I hope it doesn't come to that, but I'm afraid it might."
That event, along with Shephard, Gragarin, Ranger and the rest, were just the preliminary groundwark for the big event. The Space Age started on July 20, 1969, with Armstong's moon walk.
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