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NUKE ROCKY44


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I've sort of said this before now going on a year.
Continuing Resolutions was a harbinger of a space program on its last wind.
NASA will seem unrecognizable for the immediate future due to cuts. I would rather have a robust gov't component to a civilian space program where both gov't and commercial space generate an exciting space program.

Unfortunately I am witnessing a drastic shrinkage in NASA funding as the austerity program continues to effect the space industry.

HARRY SMITH: Hm. The mandate it seems to me of especially the new Republicans who've been sent-- sent to Congress is to shrink the deficit, shrink government, save money. With oversight, how much money do you think you can save tax payers, say over the next two years?

REPRESENTATIVE DARRELL ISSA: I'm looking at about two hundred billion. As the amount that we can either identify and eliminate the waste or at least begin the process and I'll give you one that's pretty easy. It's been in the papers. In the last days of last congress they funded five hundred million dollars for a rocket program at NASA that's already been shut down. That can't be too hard to undo. But five hundred million here, five hundred million there. That's a billion, a hundred and twenty-five billion in Medicare. Earl Devaney whos headed up the stimulus, he's the chairman over there, has done some innovative work to show us how we can find a lot of that fraud and shut it off. No, don't worry about going after somebody eighteen months later--
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-- Edited by NUKE ROCKY44 on Tuesday 4th of January 2011 10:36:42 PM

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Actually it will be very hard to undo because it will already be spent by the time March 4 when the CR runs out.  If we could get a new budget passed and signed into law soon the amount could be limited.  I don't see that as being a clear sign on the NASA budget getting as disproportionate share of the cuts.  But, there will be cuts. 

What I hoping for is to save the Orion CEV, and get some preliminary work going on a modular approach to an HLV.  I see the HLV budget as the big ticket item that gets cut to save everything else.  We launch the Orion with a Delta IV.  

It will be a bad decade for space.  I can agree with that.



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I say, cut NASA loose for the time being meaning let it make money for itself pass an amendment to its charter to invoice and the money goes direct to NASA.

Hold a bake sale...whatever to continue & re-negotiate ARES 1-X program & CEV and begin work on HLV in 2012.

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I do not understand, as an obvious sign of an increasing proportion of the cut NASA's budget. If we can quickly passed and signed into law a new budget amount may be limited.

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