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hatrack

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Fri Jun 5, 2020, 08:11 AM Jun 2020

Shitstain Campaign Yanks "Make Space Great Again" Ad After NASA Objects, Then Whines About It

The campaign to re-elect President Trump pulled SpaceX, NASA and astronauts and their families into a campaign video that appeared to violate the space agency’s advertising regulations.

The video, released on Wednesday, was the latest effort by the president to parlay his stewardship of American space policy into an upbeat campaign issue. It included shots of two NASA astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, who blasted off on Saturday aboard a SpaceX rocket, the first time astronauts have headed to orbit from the United States since 2011.

The campaign removed the video from YouTube on Thursday evening, but not before more than 4,000 people signed a Change.org petition that sought to “Stop Donald Trump politicizing SpaceX and NASA accomplishments.”

Karen L. Nyberg, a retired astronaut who is married to Mr. Hurley, posted a message on Twitter that said she and her 10-year-old son should be off limits to political campaigns.




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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/science/spacex-trump-nasa.html
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