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Obama Space Policy News

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 7, 2008

New attitude: Obama vows change, agency by agency, AP

“Obama is a space fan, and a troubled NASA is counting on that. NASA doesn’t have enough money to do all it has planned and is facing key decisions about its embryonic return-to-the-moon program, new rocketship and about-to-retire space shuttle program. The current NASA plan would have the space shuttle end in 2010 and astronauts not ready to fly in a new moon rocket until 2015. In the five years in between, America would have to rely on the Russians to take astronauts to the mostly U.S.-funded international space station. NASA’s robotic Mars program is in disarray, and its Earth-observing program has been downsized. The Obama campaign said it supports a “robust” program of robotic probes and space-based telescopes and satellites. It also emphasized education and NASA’s role in climate change research.”

5 Signs President-Elect Obama Is a Geek, Wired

“Barack Obama, soon to become the 44th President of the U.S.A., is many things: a statesman, a lawyer, an author, and an orator. It is also our opinion at GeekDad that, even without knowing him personally, we have enough evidence to demonstrate that he is a big geek. Even if you didn’t want him to win the election, you have to admit that it would be awesome for him to be not only the first African-American President, but also the first geek President.”

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