NASA to focus on space again

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#1 NASA to focus on space again

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Imagine a national space agency that looks to space to fulfill its role, not back at the planet they are on. :o All you naysayers in the rocketry community who have naysayed Donald Trump might have to learn tyo stomache him. according to Bob Walker, a senior Trump advisor,
"We see NASA in an exploration role, in deep space research. Earth-centric science is better placed at other agencies where it is their prime mission."
I know that in the past Presidents have given us a lot of lip service regarding in making us get our hopes up. In this respect I think Donald Trump is a closet space nerd and wants us looking back to the heavens.

Trump wants NASA focused on Mars, not climate change
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#2 Re: NASA to focus on space again

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NASA-- Not About Space Anymore... at least it hasn't been...

ANY change can only be for the good after the last 8 years at NASA...

We went from Kennedy's "We choose to go to the Moon and do the other things, NOT because they are easy, but because they are HARD." to Obama's "Been there, Done that" speech canceling the Constellation program to return to the Moon and on to Mars, which was incredibly short-sighted...

Not because of any great intrinsic value of the Constellation program as it existed then-- it was in deep trouble and had a lot of issues that made success questionable and the expense breathtaking... (as does the SLS/Orion which took its place) BUT instead of "rectifying the problems" Nobama was content to "kick the can down the road" and turn NASA into an outreach program to tout Middle Eastern triumphs in math and science (not MUSLIM triumphs in math and science, since most of the achievements in math and astronomy that took place in that part of the world predated the rise and control of Muslim beliefs in that region... The Muslims only came along in about the 14th century and have been stuck there ever since!)

ANYTHING Trump does is likely to be a big improvement over what NASA HAS been doing for the last 8 years...

Later! OL J R :)
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