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Did anything important come out of the talk - can anyone summarize who watched it?
by barmstrong 17y ago
Did anything important come out of the talk - can anyone summarize who watched it?
- natep 17y agoI watched it, and you should, too. It was a great speech. The best summary I can come up with: * Pres. Obama is really passionate about the space program (or at least talks like he is) * His earliest memory is waving a flag as astronauts visited Hawaii * He has a picture of Jupiter taken by the Hubble hanging in his private office * He's increasing NASA's budget * He's cutting Constellation and re-purposing Orion (2 failing programs, IMO) * He wants to see NASA to put humans farther into deep space * He wants to extend the life of the ISS by >5 years * He wants to send humans to an asteroid * He wants to send a human into a Mars orbit and back by 2030 * Next up, landing on Mars. * He's going to have a plan to give current (aka soon-to-be-former) shuttle engineers jobs by August 15. * He (or his speech writers) really like random space trivia