Popular Mechanics Analyzes the Candidates

I suppose I should not stand on a political soap box - BUT -
if you live in the USA you in the middle of much political debate.

Where NASA and the thought of going to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond is going will be tempered by what is happening in the real world, both local and global.

The Popular Mechanics article has some links where you may choose to add your 2 cents worth to the candidates.

Will be interesting to see what will be left to look up at after the elections. The return on investment may well need to contribute to solving the energy crises.

Maybe someone will come up with a way to send a mechanical spider to space that can spin a solar net that will capture the energy from the Sun and space and know how to repair itself when hit by space debris. You too may be able to catch some rays.

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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http://actionforspace.blogspot.com/2008/04/popular-mechanics-analyzes-candidates.html
Thursday, April 24, 2008Popular Mechanics Analyzes the Candidates Popular Mechanics systematically exposes that all 3 presidential candidates are soft on space. McCain will freeze the budget, Hillary focuses on a ensuring expensive government capability to do what COTS is trying to do, and Obama is stately against expensive and dangerous human spaceflight.
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4260504.htmlHow Clinton, Obama and McCain Could Change U.S. Space Policy: Geek the Vote Guest Analysis snipThe Bottom LineFor voters already behind NASA's targeted human spaceflight, don't get your hopes up—none of the three major candidates are likely to fund the current plan, because they'll all face the budgetary pressures implied by an aging population and a burgeoning federal deficit. snip
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http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/04/14/the-coming-nasa-budget-crunch/
The coming NASA budget crunchApril 14, 2008 at 8:01 am · snip[The comments to the above post are interesting as well. - LRK -]==============================================================
WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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