Coalition For Deep Space Exploration Wades Into Partisan Waters
Coalition for Deep Space Exploration Member Futuramic Recognized by Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton, Coalition for Deep Space Exploration
“The Coalition for Deep Space Exploration (Coalition) is pleased one of its members, Futuramic Tool & Engineering (Futuramic), was recognized yesterday by Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton as “being on the front lines of a manufacturing renaissance in America.” … Clinton referenced Futuramic’s role in the manufacturing of SLS stating the rocket was “being built to go from Macomb (Michigan) to Mars.”
Keith’s update: Looks like the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration’s lobbying worked – almost – “NLSLS” (what she said) is not SLS – and Third World countries do build rockets. But Hillary did say “Mars”.
Hillary Clinton at Futuramic at an "aerospace company" – "I saw the NLSLS rocket that will go from Macomb to Mars"
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton "Workers building rockets does not happen in Third World countries" Um, yes Hillary it does happen. pic.twitter.com/ihDyFrLnHT
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) August 11, 2016
.@HillaryClinton will be giving a speech at Coalition member Futuramic’s facility in Warren, MI today. Tune in here! https://t.co/HjyMofrR8G
— Explore Deep Space (@XploreDeepSpace) August 11, 2016
Some nice representation from our friends at Futuramic for today's @HillaryClinton event! pic.twitter.com/aQL5z4YwBF
— Explore Deep Space (@XploreDeepSpace) August 11, 2016
Keith’s note: The article that is linked to makes no mention of space. So why is this space industry lobbying group promoting Clinton’s speech? Do they know that she will say something about space in her speech? Or are they using a partisan political event to promote SLS and Orion?
I’d be interested to know the context for “workers building rockets does not happen in Third World countries”, since this echoes Trump’s denunciation earlier that “we’re like a third world country”. I read both of these quotes on NASAWatch.
Simply pointing out that the statement is factually incorrect doesn’t tell us what Clinton was trying to say. Otherwise you might as well summarize Trump’s statement as “Trump Praises NASA”, which it clearly did not.
She said what she said and I quoted her verbatim.
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“workers building rockets does not happen in Third World countries”
Her Clintonness thinks that everything not politics is done by generic “workers”. All that scurrying around by workers (engineers, mathematicians, and rocket scientists) can only happen in a country lucky enough to be honored to vote for Her Amazingness. Yeah, NK seems to be able to build rockets all right.
I feel ill almost every time I read a quote from either of the buffoons vying for the Presidency.
Not sure exactly what is loose and afflicting the land, but there it is.
Another example political candidates best not talk about the space program as we’ve seen over the years by many other candidates make statements which irk those in the program and those that follow programs. However, NASA is an executive office and presidential candidates should get some briefing but then NASA is only 0.5% of total federal budget.
Actually NLSLS could be an appropriate acronym. Since all they have planned for it are flybys and fly arounds, might as well call it the Never Lands Space Launch System.