Space!!

I found this article on CNN.com.

President Obama is about to reveal his space plan, this should be interesting since every other plan he has revealed has pretty much aggravated the majority of the population. If you can’t tell I’m not a huge Obama fan. But I didn’t vote for him so I did what I could do about it. Anyways the new space plan will offer a 6 billion dollar increase in budget to NASA over a 6 year period but will also require them to do away with the constellation project and pretty much scrap all of the progress they have made in rockets and shuttles in recent history.

I am not a big fan of the idea of scrapping a project that is responsible for getting the space program where it is today just so they can work just a little bit harder on a project the has no definite timeline. If they scrap this project there will be no US space travel of our own. We will rely on Russia at a cost of 50 million dollars per seat. I think it is great that the old commanders of former missions are coming forward to speak about how they feel about this. And they all seem to pretty much share the same opinion towards it, they don’t want to see us regress. In all honesty every new space technology and travel method wouldn’t be possible without the use of technology from previous versions. It also seems like we would be wasting the 10 billion dollars spent on the previous shuttles that will be being retired. We as a country cannot afford to waste 10 billion dollars. We have gone into debt to be able to spend that money. It would be like me going out and buying a car on credit, not putting insurance on it and setting it on fire. I would be stuck with the bill and no car.