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Im in a political mood, and was thinking about Obama's recent decision to scrap the Constellation program, which is our going back to the moon, and instead, through his budget, begin the groundwork towards privitization of space exploration(although not really, since you know he'd design it in a way where Big Brother still has a heavy say on everything).
This recent decision of his hits home for me, since my parents live in Rocket City (Huntsville, Alabama, one of NASA's homes) where Constellation provides jobs to a lot of people in that area. What is to become of them?
Do I want to see the privitization of space travel? Yes and no. I think either way the government is going to have its hands on everything regardless of how that plays out, but privitization might also pump money from corporations into the idea and get more people in space, so I like that idea.
But if the cancellation or reworking of Constellation causes people to be out of a job, in turn putting my stepdad out of a job since he caters to a lot of that crowd living in that city, then I can't support such a plan because it could hurt my family's ability to pay bills, and its killing jobs there, not creating.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/27/obama-budget-drop-nasa-constellation-program/ |
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