Charles Buckley ) wrote:
: Eric Chomko wrote:
: D Schneider ) wrote:
: : On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:24:47 +0000 (UTC), Eric Chomko
: : wrote:
:
: : D Schneider ) wrote:
: : : Eric Chomko wrote:
: :
: : : Charles Buckley ) wrote:
: : : [...]
: : : : (ISS, Apollo, with Shuttle being republican.
: : : [...]
: :
: : : Why is Apollo Republican? JFK and LBJ? Does Nixon get credit for
: : Apollo,
: : : somehow? I credit Nixon with Skylab.
: :
: : : Slow down. Read for comprehension, not for Evelyn Woods scorekeeping.
: :
: : Based upon your comment, you write about as well as I read.
: :
:
: : Uhh, my comment was indicating that it was clear that Charles Buckley was
: : *not* calling Apollo republican, and that you were showing poor reading
: : comprehension in thinking that he did.
:
: Please do explain what Mr. Buckley meant. My thick slavic skull sometimes
: has trouble getting info in. But once in it, likewise, the info doesn't
: easily escape.


: Apollo - ISS democrat.

: Shuttle republican.


: Apollo, there is not question about who was president.

: Shuttle was funded through all of its major phases with a republican
: president pushing it. (Although Congress was solidly democratic with
: an even larger majority than the republicans currently have)

: ISS.. Democratic president and democratic senate. Without the deal
: Clinton made, ISS would have been cancelled.

But ISS is run out of JSC in Houston, Texas, which as been solidly
Republican for a long time now. Likewise, Hubble is run out of GSFC in
Greenbelt, Maryland, which has solidly been Democratic for a long time as
well. Perhaps you need to take a local-NASA-facility look at your
political connection before you leap?

What Clinton did with ISS was to remove the "Freedom" moniker, shrink it
and emphasized its "international" label with ISS. JSC then decided that
ISS wasn't big enough to share with MSFC as was "Freedom", and took ISS
for itself. MSFC retaliated, not to JSC, but to GSFC(!), by taking
Spacelab. All this was happening with the commentary that the facilities
should go back to that which they were originally intended.

Eric