by Nate » Thu Feb 06, 2014 4:08 pm
TurboB replied to post #2: 4 How many times do you feel we need to go to the moon, walk around, and come back? It's been done, for pete's sake. And, for your information,The president's budget request plans an investment of an additional $6bn in Nasa over the next five years - an overall $100bn commitment to the agency(its budget for 2011 would be $19bn). NASA 2011 BUDGET REQUEST Adds an extra $6bn to Nasa's budget over five yearsTerminates George Bush's Constellation Moon programmeAsks commercial launch firms to play a bigger role in futureExtends the life of the space station beyond 2016Provides more money for robotic Solar System explorationFunding for probes to the Moon, Mars and the SunAims to accelerate the introduction of Earth observation satellitesMoney to rebuild the Orbiting Carbon Observatory lost in 2009He wants some of the extra funding($500m in 2011) to be used to incentivise private companies, to help them bring forward a new generation of launch systems to carry humans to and from space. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8489097.stmSo your attempt at making it sound like Obama gutted Nasa is incorrect. Sorry. He simply wants to use our money more wisely. 44 months ago