U.S. President Barack Obama has lowered the ambition of America. Under the Obama plan, space is not the final frontier, Earth is.
Richard Shelby
The Public Record
Richard Shelby is a former United States Senator from Alabama, serving from January 3, 1987, until January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Shelby was known for his work on various committees, including Appropriations and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Throughout his tenure, he focused on issues such as military funding, economic development, and infrastructure improvements in Alabama.
You've got to fix it, you've got to change it, you need a divorce; otherwise, you scrap the whole program.
I don't have any more. I think the Secretary understands my concern, and I think he shares that.
Although, through the Department of Commerce, our country is able to maintain high technical standards as well as staying on the cutting edge of scientific research.
The President's budget proposes to reward those failed commercial providers with an additional bailout.
The late President John F. Kennedy must have turned over in his grave. JFK launched the Moon landing program in the 1960s because he understood that any nation that wants to remain No. 1 on Earth must also be No. 1 in space.
Obama doesn't get it. Space is last frontier. President Obama, in effect, pulled the plug on our space program.
This plan lacks vision, is unrealistic, and jeopardizes our entire human space exploration program.
the taxpayer gets two satellites with only five instruments for $12 billion and a launch date delayed until 2016.
But it is a sordid problem, is it not? And it is billions of dollars involved worldwide, is it not?





