Rand Simberg ) wrote:
: On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:21:54 -0700, in a place far, far away, Charles
: Buckley made the phosphor on my monitor
: glow in such a way as to indicate that:

: No, manned spaceflight is Republican and unmanned spaceflight is Democrat.
: THAT is the aspect of NASA in 2005.
:
:
: There is no evidence of that. The major blocks to the CEV are
: Republicans. (Specifically Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY)
: of the House Committe on Science).

: Would that be the Chairman Boehlert who recently said in a hearing: "I
: am for returning humans to the moon by 2020. I am for moving ahead
: prudently but swiftly with the development of a Crew Exploration
: Vehicle (CEV) for that purpose."?

: scratching head at Charles' bizarre interpretation of recent events

: The Clinton administrationsupported more X programs aimed at
: manned space flight than
: any administration since the 1960's.

: Such as? I can't think of any other than X-33. I'm not aware that
: X-34 had anything to do with manned spaceflight, and DC-XA wasn't
: really a Clinton initiative--they just inherited it (unless by
: "support" you mean "not go out of their way to kill"). And one of the
: few line item vetoes that Clinton used (before the USSC ruled it
: unconstitutional) was to kill funding for the military spaceplane in
: 1997.

The question remains should NASA develop potential military spacecraft? If
anything NASA should get militray craft to use for peaceful space
exploration, not the other way around.

: This really is not a partisan issue.

: No, generally it's not. It's usually just a pork issue. Of course to
: Eric, *everything* is a partisan issue.


Not really, but I do wonder why you appear to hate NASA and give the DOD a
pass on virtually every issue where they intersect.

How about we send HST to JSC and ISS to GSFC? I bet we'd get a shuttle
repair mission to HST then!

Eric