Obama to defund Shuttle Replacement

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No one seems to be giving this guy a chance and he constantly has to run defense.

You talking about me or Obama? Welcome to the Lounge Black Mamba, tighten your seat belt, the conservatives in here are relentless at bashing folks.

Star Wars, flawed and controversial though it be, is a good example of "near space" as opposed to "far space". I made a few bucks from Star Wars myself, working on Kwajalien atoll and related islands. The space race under Kennedy was a time for bold moves, the space race is over, the cold war is over, were in a different time with different needs. This is NOT the time for "bold moves" in the space program. Quite the opposite, Obama is right on target with this move to reexamine NASA goals.

We learned a lot from the space race, from that time, the dawning of the electronic age. The law of diminishing returns is now firmly in place as it relates to what we can gain from further far space exploration. One way to use the money saved from NASA would be to fund education for more engineers, something the USA is seriously lagging behind in. It's no accident India is often "tech support" for so many USA companies, it's not just cheap labor, it's the HUGE number of engineers they are cranking out as opposed to the USA. The wave of the future is not space, it's getting serious about education!