Comments about ‘Imagination may be casualty of loss of space program’

What? Barak Obama is pairing down our socialized- nonprofit space agency in favor of gasp, "commercial operations".........

That's like Stalin opening up a Burger King franchise in Moscow!

Has Glen Beck been lying to me? Tell me it ain't so Beck! Tell me it ain't so!

So the article does a great job explaining the benefits of our socialized space program over the years and even explains that Utah will lose a lot of jobs if Obama cuts all that socialized space spending.

So Obama is now being criticized for not being socialist enough for Utah?

I prefer to imagine a world without the nation-state.

Ever heard of SpaceShipOne?

We'll continue to dream even when these plucked parasites have left to find some other source of wealth to loot.

It's too hard to fully fund liberal social entitlements and a space exploration program at the same time. Space exploration is wasteful, sure, but nothing quite compares to what we have discovered as a result. The USA is no longer interested in maintaining excellence in any field other than tax and spend.

Ya,
Drop healtchare and other social services for the tax-payers who need them so we can pay for other pure "Socialist programs" like Space Exploration and Offensive Wars in the Middle East?!

And who's the ones always barking about turning BIG Government programs (just like space-launches) over to the private commerical sector who can ALWAYS do it faster, better and cheaper in a competitive Free Market?

Jay, you should know better than to have printed this.

US and Europe are not anymore the rich countries they were a couple of decades ago and the new enemy now is China, even if this is a silent and not decleared war. They made US and Europe poorer by asimetrical commercial behaviours, knowledge stealing and worker exploiting. Obama is starting to recognize it and I hope he will consenguently act by creating the case by which China will be banned from WTO.
There are not anymore resources to nurse human exploration dreams until this war will not been won.

Everyone seems to forget that the NASA budget is actually being increased a bit under Obama's proposal.

Let the Republicans in Congress fight for adding even more to the NASA budget to keep the key elements of Constellation they want to keep going. Let them fight in a bi-partisan way FOR this, with the same passion and vitriol that they marshaled to fight AGAINST the health care bill, which by the way I am pretty ambivalent about.

Then maybe I'll believe that this is more than just hypocritical whining by those whose districts stand to lose jobs (and by default, whose legislative reps will lose votes, which is all they care about).

I can understand Lovell's emotions about this issue, but I don't think he understands that the NASA we have today is a shadow of what we had in 1970. We have already fallen behind other spacefaring countries in several important areas: commercial satellites, crew launch, and low-cost boosters. Now we find out that the Constellation program is going to eat all NASA's budget for the next twenty years and still not return Americans to the lunar surface without a major funding boost. Bolden's shakeup is the right plan for regaining our leadership in space.

Bolden said he was stupid during one of the conference and I think he was right!

Remember what happened to the US auto industry could happen to NASA. One by one America is losing its industry. If we are not careful the US could end up like the UK.