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What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that
he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of Shuttle? - Ed Kyle |
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"ed kyle" wrote in message om... What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of Shuttle? - Ed Kyle That's the assumption, though many people thought that Clinton would cancel the space station in 1993 and he did not. My guess is that we would probably see the end of Americans in space under a Kerry administration, sooner or later. It's pretty clear that regardless of what some people might want, we can't keep the shuttles flying for more than about ten years in any case. So without something like the Bush plan to replace the shuttles, we'll see the triumph of Robert Park's "robots uber alles" additude. |
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ed kyle wrote: What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of Shuttle? Replacing the shuttle with the CEV is clearly a reasonable thing to do and will probably continue, but CEV's beyond-LEO role will be firmly shelved, as will any significant funding for return-to-the-Moon preparations. The emphasis will be on ISS and meeting prior commitments, and on some modest reductions in NASA's budget. Bear in mind that even assuming Kerry wins and goes two terms, and the CEV stays roughly on schedule, we'll be in the tail end of his presidency before shuttle retirement and manned CEV LEO flights are an immediate prospect. Only then will a big decision have to be made about funding for more ambitious things. By that time, the easy thing to do will be to stall and punt any major decision to the next president. -- MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. | |
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"ed kyle" wrote in message
om... What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of Shuttle? It's impossible to say. Going to the moon is such an obvious choice that he might very well keep that and cancel everything else including the shuttle and shuttle replacement. CEV will be renamed the KEV (Kerry Exploration Vehicle). During the next 10 years, Mars is irrelevant, so it doesn't matter whether he supports sending men to Mars or not. He won't, but that won't set back the Mars program any. |
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"Mark R. Whittington" wrote in message hlink.net...
"ed kyle" wrote in message om... What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of Shuttle? - Ed Kyle That's the assumption, though many people thought that Clinton would cancel the space station in 1993 and he did not. My guess is that we would probably see the end of Americans in space under a Kerry administration, sooner or later. I dont think he would have means to stop X-Prize or Space Adventures. Americans could still go to space. -kert |
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"Kaido Kert" wrote in message om... "Mark R. Whittington" wrote in message hlink.net... "ed kyle" wrote in message om... What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of Shuttle? - Ed Kyle That's the assumption, though many people thought that Clinton would cancel the space station in 1993 and he did not. My guess is that we would probably see the end of Americans in space under a Kerry administration, sooner or later. I dont think he would have means to stop X-Prize or Space Adventures. Americans could still go to space. -kert Don't be too sure about that. I do not think Kerry would exert himself too much to pass regulatory or tax incentives for private space travel. Also, he is quite capable of forbidding travel to the Moon or Mars out of environmental reasons. |
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"ed kyle" wrote in message
What will President Kerry do with NASA? My guess is that he will want to dump the Bush Moon/Mars plans ASAP, but will he be able to stop CEV and the end of Shuttle? - Ed Kyle Well, *if* PK is selected by the Dems, and *if* he wins the election, we can get a little insight from these: Here are some links which reveal at least some things about the various democratic candidates: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/84/1, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...426EST0632.DTL, Jon |
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From: Reed Snellenberger
Kerry probably won't do very much in a direct manner about NASA -- for one thing, support for manned spaceflight among liberal Democrats has historically been pretty low John F. Kennedy, anyone? |
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