Category Archives: Space
When Politicians Intervene: NASA’s Budget Refocusing Ends US Space Exploration Program [Reader Post]
Some number of years ago, over twenty as I remember, the late (and IMHO great) Paul Harvey said that for every dollar spent at NASA, the return was seven dollars. So with that quote in my mind, the final Space Shuttle launch a few days ago, and Obama refocusing the NASA budget, I want to examine Obama’s NASA policy, as well as identify/review some of the daily benefits that we all derive from the NASA budget and space exploration.
Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Telescope cross in front of the sun in this image captured by Thierry Legault
We all know that the Global Warming zealots are a crazy bunch, they would destroy whole economies because of a .00010 increase in temperature. Now they want to torpedo the man mission to Mars: A squeeze on funding for satellites … Continue reading
