The Constellation program may have been killed early because of budgetary cuts, along with the Ares I rocket. How will they get to the space station? And more importantly, what about the people who are going to lose their jobs? No space program??
The Obama administration by way of NASA by way of a complicated funding rule involving contractors may have put an early end—or close to it—to the Constellation program, e.g. the
program.
The technical details are rather hard to explain, but it appears to be a back-door attempt to neuter Constellation by forcing a cut-back of nearly $1-billion dollars in contractor spending. Estimates are that some 5,000 jobs will be lost between Utah and Florida within the next month.The Ares I rocket, planned to be a ferry to the International Space Station and eventually the
“This latest attempt by the administration to force an early termination of the Constellation program is nothing more than a disingenuous legal maneuver to circumvent statutory language that was put in place to prevent this very type of action,” said U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah. “Hurting our national defense capabilities and industrial base are examples of the long-term collateral damage that will come as a result of this administration’s destructive and dangerous political agenda.”
NASA spokesman Jacobs rejected charges that the decision was a backdoor effort to cancel Constellation, saying that the agency is legally compelled to cut back spending now, no matter what happens to the program.
Because the Obama administration slashed NASA’s budget.
10. June 2010 at 9:14 pm
Word is the action will cost jobs at The Johnson Space Center too… I know a couple of folks who are very concerned about their jobs…
davek
11. June 2010 at 3:20 am
Utah and the Space Program sections of Florida vote Republican, no wonder he wants to cut those jobs. If it hits Texas, so much the better says Obama.
I’m no longer young and I have done a fair amount of traveling in my day. Obama is my first sighting of a six foot plus ‘rhoid with big ears.
11. June 2010 at 7:40 am
If we won’t be going to the space station, who will?? The Russians?
Will we abandon everything to other countries just because this administration says so? I know there are a lot of questions for which I have no answers… but I don’t like the tack the jug eared jackass is taking…
11. June 2010 at 10:07 am
F’in arse. If he gets rid of the high tech jobs, what exactly are our americans suppose to do for work? Be Janitors for people in other countries?
11. June 2010 at 10:56 am
Pretty much.
11. June 2010 at 1:35 pm
now all we need is for BHO to say, “don’t waste your money on trips to Orlando” to put the final nail in our local economy’s coffin.
Our good friend, Rocketman, is starting to stress about his potential unemployment.
11. June 2010 at 1:39 pm
If he says ‘don’t waste your money on trips to Orlando’ it’ll be a good bet it’s because he and MO want to take Malaria and Sashay to see Mickey.
He’s killing us, every facet of our way of life.
11. June 2010 at 1:36 pm
and I must laugh… they’re going to give money to re-train these NASA engineers. To do what?! Flip hamburgers? Be secretaries? WTF do you retrain the brilliant minds of engineers to do?
Asshole.
11. June 2010 at 1:39 pm
Yeah, that’s ridiculous.