Say Good By To NASA If Romney And GOP Get Power

[TheMastersNemesis]

I am sure that Romney and the GOP would find a way to sell NASA and our space program to the Chinese if given power. The Ryan budget is about exploding the deficit at the expense of the country as a whole. Meanwhile the rich will end up paying no taxes. Any voter with any sense of of what is going on would never vote GOP.

[johnd83]

1. I worry about that too

If Curiosity had crashed it would have been the end of the Mars program.

[n2doc]

2. Maybe.

But W didn't kill NASA. What is more likely is that NASA will get contractor'ed to pieces. Everything will get put out to bid, or for no-bid contracts. I suspect several defense contractors would not want to see their cash streams from NASA go away.

In essence, things will cost more and we will see more failures due to contractor incompetence and cost cutting.

[johnnie]

3. I'm a contractor at NASA

And I work with a lot of good contractors there. NASA has been contracting out for decades.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Is there a difference between contracting out and complete privitization?

If NASA contracts out, don't they still retain control and oversight of projects and overall project design? Just wondering.

[girl gone mad]

4. Obama has been cutting NASA's budget.

Neoliberals are no friend to big space.

[Posteritatis]

6. Both parties tend to be hostile to NASA.

Most people don't have a clue what NASA's budget is, so chipping away at it satisfies people who think it's closer to US defense budget levels instead of its actual location around Canadian defense budget levels.

There's plenty of those even around DU, and then there's just the "we need to create a perfect utopia before spending one dime on space" morons all over the place...