Author Topic: Bush wants to increase NASA's budget (Read 964 times)

Karnak · « **on:** February 02, 2003, 09:32:07 PM »

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Bush wants more money for NASA

Now many (most?) of you are aware that I think Bush is a horrible President and has been an utter disaster for our nation, but...

Thank you President Bush. I hope you can get it trough Congress.

Erlkonig · « **Reply #1 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:16:49 PM »

Why is this a good thing?

Frogm4n · « **Reply #2 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:17:03 PM »

wow if this is true then my respect for him has gone from complete moron to just a boob.
crossing my fingers that it is true.

hawk220 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:22:34 PM »

it may very likely be just a spin in order to boost ratings for the election. Granted, ANY President ,regardless of affiliation would do the same thing. If it came from the heart then I have to respect it.

cajun · « **Reply #4 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:33:22 PM »

I think its very good hes trying to increase their budgets, hey I mean they are still using 30 year old space ships with 30 year old computers!!! not surprising what happened yesterday happened!
Money too often comes before safety, and in nasa's buisness thats something they cant afford not to afford!

Bush isn't the best president we ever had when it comes to econimey but hey, I'd hate to see the US if Al Gore got elected!!!

Frogm4n · « **Reply #5 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:38:09 PM »

just looked at the increasen, 500million....... seems like alot right? well one f-22 cost 200million. figure that out. its now down from boob to pandering boob.

Bodhi · « **Reply #6 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:44:04 PM »

500 million is an awful lot for what it is intended to do...

REhire most of the techs that care for the shuttles in between flights which were layed off during Clinton's wanton budget cuts of teh military and space program.

Frogm4n · « **Reply #7 on:** February 02, 2003, 10:49:42 PM »

they need a new space plane entirely, 500million will be enough to fund the development maybe.

john9001 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2003, 11:05:14 PM »

frog is right , they need a new type of space plane and a new launch system, getting lifted into orbit from the ground by massive rockets is last century, they need to go back to the old Dyna-soar project they were working on before JFK started the "race to the moon".

the computers on the shuttles have been upgraded , they are not 30 years old.

Krusher · « **Reply #9 on:** February 02, 2003, 11:36:40 PM »

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Originally posted by Frogm4n
just looked at the increasen, 500million....... seems like alot right? well one f-22 cost 200million. figure that out. its now down from boob to pandering boob.

its not bad considering what NASA watch has to say

http://www.reston.com/nasa/congress/10.30.98.rohra.html

Sandman · « **Reply #10 on:** February 02, 2003, 11:52:55 PM »

With the deficit hole he's digging, certainly! Throw NASA in with the rest of it... We can make our grand children pay for it.

Batz · « **Reply #11 on:** February 03, 2003, 12:06:22 AM »

They ought to sell off the shuttle fleet and build a practical and cheaper vehicle.

The shuttle was built in expectation of carrying satelites from industry into space. Most of the experiments done on the shuttle could be done by automated systems. Or in a smaller more specialized vehicle.

Right now the shuttles only real use is taking astronauts to the space station.

Its been shown that NASA could do away with shuttle fleet altogether and reinvest that money in other projects and get a far better return.

The NASA budget increased by 600 million dollars each year over the past 2.

Throwing more money at NASA is kinds knee jerk if ya ask me. Especially since they havent found the cause of yesterdays accident.

cajun · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2003, 12:43:34 AM »

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Originally posted by john9001
frog is right , they need a new type of space plane and a new launch system, getting lifted into orbit from the ground by massive rockets is last century, they need to go back to the old Dyna-soar project they were working on before JFK started the "race to the moon".

the computers on the shuttles have been upgraded , they are not 30 years old.

Oh well they still old (at least i'm pretty sure) I don't study space craft and stuff much

Frogm4n · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2003, 01:00:04 AM »

shuttles were made to just take people to a space station, but nixon said one or the other. well you cant have a space station if you have nothing to fly people up there and back. well it started off small untill the cia came in and told them that it needed to have X amount of cargo space for there "special needs"or the funding would get cut. and the cost of the shuttle exploded from there on.

Animal · « **Reply #14 on:** February 03, 2003, 02:49:50 AM »

$500 mil. is table scraps for such a huge endeavor.

The thing about the space program is that you either support it fully or there will simply not be enough progress.
Had the goverment kept support just like they did in the cold war, we could very well be in Mars already.

But I gotta give props to Bush. Even $500 million can be a lot when there are MANY people in Washington who simply want to see the space program closed.