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President Bush promised a shuttle replacement by 2014 when he canceled the shuttle.
by peter303 8y ago
President Bush promised a shuttle replacement by 2014 when he canceled the shuttle.
- timb07 8y agoPresident Bush also proclaimed "Mission Accomplished".
- bilbo0s 8y agoAlso declared "Brownie" was doing a "Heckuva job!" I think it is the nature of most politicians to "spin" to the point of "spectacular falsehoods".
- King-Aaron 8y ago> I think it is the nature of most politicians to "spin" to the point of "spectacular falsehoods". In recent times it appears to be more a case of "produce spectacular falsehoods, then attempt to spin it"
- qohen 8y agoNot in our timeline [0]: Although Bush stated at the time "Our mission continues" and "We have difficult work to do in Iraq," he also stated that it was the end to major combat operations in Iraq. Bush never uttered the phrase "Mission Accomplished";[2] a banner stating "Mission Accomplished" was used as a backdrop to the speech. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech
- sseth 8y agoLater in the article ... "the White House later conceded that they hung the banner but still insists it had been done at the request of the crew members" He stood in front of a banner put up by the White House saying "Mission Accomplished" and claimed victory. He did not clarify that the huge banner behind him was about the crew's mission and not Iraq. It is legitimate to say that Bush proclaimed it, and pedantic to argue he did not speak the words.
- maxxxxx 8y agoAll presidents promise something for years after their tenure and then proceed with cutting the budget.
- vkou 8y agoObama cancelled Constellation, then backed the SLS disaster, and told everyone NASA will be going to Mars in 2030. I think it's pretty safe to assume that NASA will not be going anywhere outside LEO in 2030. If we are really lucky, it would stop with the manned space expedition charade entirely, and do something useful with those billions of dollars, for a change. Probes, robotics, ecosystem study.
- unethical_ban 8y agoAny post that suggests humans should not explore space will be the recipient of my derision. We can't and shouldn't sit on this rock for the next 100 years. And we as a world can afford both manned and unmanned exploration.
- ISL 8y agoIf we are to leave the planet eventually, some level of skill at keeping people in space is essential. (N.B. I'm a scientist who would love more dedicated robotic missions. Human spaceflight is important, too.)
- vkou 8y agoIf, instead of sending 12 people to the moon, we took that money, and worked on sending hundreds of robots to the moon... We'd probably have more then zero people on the moon today. And better robots. Or, at least, more than six people in space.
- avmich 8y ago> We'd probably have more then zero people on the moon today. Unfortunately the opposite could also be true - loss of interest to space research, because, hey, they don't make anything perceivable... In the awesome game "Bazz Aldrin's Race Into Space" if both (human) players try to perfect the technology, to avoid costly failures with human flights and stop flying for a while, at some point budgets get slashed and the game stops. I suspect it could be a possibility in the real world. Fortunately, by now we both depend on space enough and have enough technology to keep flying.
- rsynnott 8y agoGeorge Bush in lying shocker. I mean, this probably isn't in the list of the top fifty things he mislead people on.