Thank you, thank you, thank you! Maybe now some of the for sale signs will come down in my neighborhood!

So, NASA fan, how are you feeling today?

After months and months and months of uncertainty it looks like the space agency will finally see come clarity in its human spaceflight mission: three more shuttle flights (instead of two), fly the International Space Station for a decade, step up production of a heavy lift rocket and increase support for private rockets to carry humans into orbit.

This is the gist of the Senate authorization bill for NASA, which represents a compromise between President Obama's original budget request way back in February and the House bill, which essentially was Constellation part deux. The House is expected to vote on the Senate bill tomorrow.

My sense is that there was a lot of support outside NASA's workforce for the President's bill among those who wanted to shoot for Mars and were willing to give the space agency an extreme makeover in order to do so. But there was little support inside the space agency for gutting NASA's human spaceflight efforts for the next decade or so.

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So give credit to politicians for crafting a bipartisan approach -- Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Bill Nelson deserve the most credit -- and getting something done for human spaceflight. That's no small task in the waning days of a hyper-partisan Congress.

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2010/09/post_183.html

Great news for NASA and their employee's

As you can imagine - this is all the local news is talking about. More than 300 laid off here.

1,200 NASA workers to be laid off

(CNN) -- More than 1,200 NASA workers will be laid off Friday, despite Congress passing a $19 billion budget for the space agency two days earlier.

Lori Garver, NASA's deputy administrator, said Thursday she didn't believe the bill would affect planned layoffs, "certainly not for tomorrow."

Thursday was the last day for laid-off employees to report to their workstations. Shuttle workers on their last day were to receive their final paperwork.

Many of the departing workers have worked on the shuttle program since its beginning in the early 1980s.

Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/01/nasa.layoffs/index.html?hpt=T2

Wow just when I thought they were getting good news they get kicked in the gutt

Yep - all of the ones here were contractors. Sadly, some of them are over 50 and have worked at the Johnson Space Center and at Kennedy for more than 30 years.

So just WHAT are they to do? Not all these folks have college degrees meaning they aren't all engineers, computer geeks, etc. They are just plain ole middle class Americans getting kicked in the a$$ AGAIN!

Obama will be blamed howeverf it is the Bush Admin that caused this by the program cuts and their sourcing programs....

The ENTIRE Bush Family should be ousted from America for LIFE but of course that will never happen

I will likely see another Bush in office within my life time

Isn't that a scary thought

My opinion is that this is happening because all the space programs of the future are weaponised projects run by the Navy and/or Black Projects!!

How much do we see or hear about the X-37? Yet it is flying and can be spotted from the ground. How about the scram jets that do 10X multiples of speed of sound and possibly more? There are interest groups doing night vigils with night vision scopes just to watch the laser battles in our outer atmosphere...

Why have all the attempts to set up Space Law been thwarted??

The Militarisation of Space!


USA - becoming a Secret Police State...