He is shutting off all funding for the moon missions and further Mars exploration. What he isn't thinking about is that this will devastate the entire Metro Houston in one way or the other. Thousands will lose their jobs which not only include NASA but all the surrounding businesses will also be affected.
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I think it is another example of our short sighted president's goal to "reduce the deficit." I guess nobody told him that the NASA program is so minuscule in its budget footprint compared to programs like his new health care entitlement that he insists on ramming down peoples' throats.
Dept. of Redundancy Department
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Many good things have come from The Space Race and the later Space Program. But at SUCH a price, including at least 10 people dead in explosions or fire. Billions upon billions of dollars. We have learned a lot, but face it: in these tough times, I agree with Obama. Republicans should be ecstatic, no? Capitalism shining, and all that.
But the jobs: who do you think the private companies will hire?
People with NASA experience?
People with NASA know-how?
Turn-key NASA facilities are a-waitin for their new owners. It wouldn't make economic sense for the new owner/s to duplicate what NASA built over many years and because of massive billions thrown at NASA to provide state-of-the-art EVERYTHING; why build anew what's already built? This could be a bargain AND a good thing.
As one wise answer included: "monitor and verify their Americanness.".
I wouldn't look for NASA shutting down having a too-big effect on Houston. Or NASA-Goddard, NASA-Ames, etc.
But there's always U-Haul...
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I think so.
Grela LaTuc
Has my brother very upset. He's an engineer on the Ares-1 project. His company is letting people go and this may cost him his job.
But, this does open NASA to go into robotics and other exploration fields, while giving private companies the chance to pick up the slack in the manned space programs.
The Big A -- American Agnostic Deist
obviously it is sign of the times -- it ain't going to first or last program people like that we are going to lose -- we have been borrowing for along time and not just in bad economies but in good ones(which is really bad). Were also going to have to pay more but eventually if we tighten our belts we can get our selves back on track
if we sell that -- there better be a lot clauses that those companies are monitored and American
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dude even as a republican i can see the plan behind that. he is decreasing the amount of money that NASA itself is getting from the government and instead diverting that money to private companies so that they can attempt to improve upon space travel. all he is doing is taking NASA away and making it private and then the government will pay for seats on the ships the private companies take up. at least thats what the plan is now. there will be shortfalls and money wasted obviously but at least its letting capitalism run its course. and yes it will affect houston but being from texas myself im willing to go ahead and let houston go to waste. its turned into a pretty bad blemish on the face of tx.