Not Ranked
It's money that will be used more intelligently elsewhere. And who believes what the see or read on Fox News anyways?
"NASA's budget, just over $18.7 billion this year, is still expected to rise again in 2011, reports Space.com, though by much less than the $1 billion increase NASA and its contractors have been privately anticipating since mid-December. A White House-appointed panel, led by former Lockheed Martin chief Norm Augustine, urged these changes on the administration in December.
The panel also said a worthwhile manned space exploration program would require Obama to budget about $55 billion for human spaceflight over the next five years, some $11 billion more than he included in the 2011-2015 forecast he sent Congress last spring.
A senior administration official told Fox News that rather than space programs, the president plans to use the address to renew his focus on jobs, calling for swift action on lagging bills providing tax cuts for job creation, new equipment purchases and the elimination of capital gains for small businesses."
So let's see, space exploration and travel verses upgrading on infrastructure including bridges, dams, roadways, levies, the grid, hospitals, etc.
Now if Obama would just get us the F out of Iraq and Afganistan maybe we'd have the funds for such activities as a rocket to Uranus.
|