Politics
'Citizens' Group Carries Obama's Water in Space
Around the State
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, workers release the cables around the Columbus module from the overhead crane. Credit: NASA/Jim GrossmanThe Washington-based Citizens Against Government Waste awarded Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., its "porker of the month" award for co-sponsoring an amendment that would force NASA to keep spending money on Constellation.
The Obama administration has called for cancellation of the $9 billion program, which would take astronauts back to the moon by 2020.
Shelby and Utah Sen. Bob Bennett last month inserted their Constellation language into an emergency spending bill for funding military operations in Afghanistan.
“Sen. Shelby’s actions just perpetuate the notion that politicians in Washington are living on a completely different planet,” CAGW president Tom Schatz said in a statement.
But Florida officials, led by U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, have lobbied for Constellation to continue while they cast doubt on the White House's vision for future space exploration.
“The real waste is canceling a program that’s near completion after investing $9 billion into it," Posey said.
"If Constellation is killed, the president plans to outsource American space jobs to Russia to the tune of more than a billion dollars – that’s taxpayer money spent there, in Russia, and not here,” the congressman said.
Facing the double whammy of scrapping Constellation and retiring the space shuttle, Florida stands to lose some 15,000 space-related jobs. Obama has pledged to soften the economic blow, but has yet to spell out a definitive plan for the state's Space Coast.
Without specific initiatives to maintain heavy-launch capability, Posey says Obama and NASA risk creating an "eternal gap" in U.S. space exploration as well as national security.
“I think our investment in human space flight has produced many tangible benefits for our national security, our technological advancements and economic competitiveness,” said Posey, a former Kennedy Space Center worker.
Critics of the CAGW called the group's analysis "deeply flawed" and indicative of the organization's historic bias against space programs.
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“The real waste is canceling a program that’s near completion after investing $9 billion into it," Posey said.
If you call a program that is at least 7 years and another $30 billion from being complete “near”.
The only reason we will hire the Russians is because NASA has done everything it could to prevent any type of competition. If the government had encouraged private spaceflight 10 years ago we would now be sending Americans up on privately run American vehicles. This would include both government employees and private individuals.
SpaceX developed a complete company, engines, two vehicles and two launch sites for around $100 million. NASA can’t even develop a launch abort system for that. So I have to agree, NASA has become PORK.
In fact, the "Ares I-X" test flight (sub-orbital... and really didn't test any equipment or designs that are going to fly on the "real" Ares I vehicle) cost about the same order of magnitude.... as did just the launch pad for the Ares rockets. In other words, for the money spent to date for the Ares I, we could have a dozen different companies all making rockets that would have already gone into space by now.
Yeah, this is pure pork of the worst kind here. Besides, Alabama is going to be getting job growth from the commercial rocket business in a way that will all but mitigate any of the problems from the cancellation of the Constellation program (presuming current funding levels are roughly maintained for NASA overall... even if redirected to commercial spaceflight).
The only state in the USA that is getting "screwed" is Utah, where other major space launcher companies are not located at unfortunately. Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is the only company that isn't seriously looking at a purely commercial rocket system. It certainly shouldn't be a concern for "sun-belt" states to worry about or their congressional representatives, unless somehow they owe political favors to Utah politicans. I'm saying this as a Utahn as well.
The only thing that Florida needs to watch out for is more "progressive" states (perhaps a bad term here, but it still sort of fits) like Texas and Virginia that might end up building up spaceports and infrastructure that could challenge Florida in terms of people reaching for the stars. Tying the future of Florida to programs like Constellation will in the long run be seen as a state shooting itself in the foot. Certainly don't take for granted that spaceflight will always be associated with Florida.