One problem with the Obama plan is that the White House botched the job of explaining the concept, said space scholar John Logsdon of George Washington University.
"It's absolutely crucial that Obama articulate a clear sense of what we're up to," he said. "It's hard because it's a relatively sophisticated strategy."
The people that are coming out against the plan are former astronauts!On Monday, 27 former astronauts and senior NASA officials — including Bush's NASA chief, Michael Griffin — wrote an open letter to the president, contending that canceling the moon program would cede American leadership in space technology.
I think "sophisticated strategy" is their bread-and-butter since some of these critics are *actual* rocket scientists. They should be able to pick up things tossed out of the White House pretty well after successfully flying a spacecraft to the Moon and back. Instead this guy says that the Obamanauts just didn't articulate things well enough to them like they were rubes or something.
No amount of salesmanship can get people behind a plan to outsource our space program to the Russians for $56 million per astronaut or to the guy that founded PayPal or the other guy that founded Amazon. I thought the White House was all about fighting evil corporations.
Instead they are going to outsource our space program to them because they can do it cheaper? Talk about a mixed message after just getting done damning Wall Street and Big Insurance. Maybe it is all just a big plan to let the Iranians catch up to us in the Space Race.
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