Space Race II
Jan. 9th, 2004 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eggwardsIt seems that President Bush has proposed Americans returning to the moon, then on to Mars. While I'm really thrilled by space exploration, watching it for all of my young life (heck, I did a science fair project on how the shuttle worked, and I'm watching for information about the current Mars Rover) I'm sort of suspicious about this announcement.
First, we don't have a space shuttle right now, so we already need a vehicle to do the "day to day" space shots. Second, it seems less about actual exploration, but more about bravado and trying to challenge the Chinese who are working on their own space program, some thirty to forty years late. Third, Where are we going to get the money. NASA's budget has been slashed in the last few years, but the federal government has already overspent its budget by millions, if not billions.
Still, it's an election year.
The story from yahoo.
First, we don't have a space shuttle right now, so we already need a vehicle to do the "day to day" space shots. Second, it seems less about actual exploration, but more about bravado and trying to challenge the Chinese who are working on their own space program, some thirty to forty years late. Third, Where are we going to get the money. NASA's budget has been slashed in the last few years, but the federal government has already overspent its budget by millions, if not billions.
Still, it's an election year.
The story from yahoo.
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Date: 2004-01-09 06:53 am (UTC)Bush is such a blowhard. He is really trying to put us back into the "glory" of the '80s...with even more National Debt than ever before.
I think sending the rover to Mars is great, but let's face it, there is so much more we need do before we put ourselves further in debt by showing the rest of the world all of our cool and advanced technology. Let's try and end the two wars that we're still fighting...oh wait, didn't Bush say that they ended?
Anyway, W has spent too much of our money already and made us look like fools.