NASA's Inspiring plans to be announced. Try to contain your excitement

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/04/14/us.space.program/index.html?hpt=C1

Obamas inspiring plans for NASA include updating the Kennedy Space Center. Well that should get the imagination of millions of kids all fired up. Nothing is more stimulating then a bunch of rocket scientists painting the walls of the Kennedy Space Center. What could be more inspiring then new carpet in the hallways. Obama is a visionary.

So he wants to use commercial companies to ferry astronauts back and forth. How is that going to work? Private Companies need to make money. How do they make money by bringing people back and forth to the ISS?

Interesting that for student loans it was important (for Obama) to cut out the middle man. But for space travel it was important to add a middle man. If NASA is too expensive Obamas solution is to add private companies who need to make a profit. Yes private companies always do such a bang up job controlling costs and doing things on schedule.

Lets look at the record of Private Companies in the space launch business.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009374689_sealaunch24.html

Boeing Bankrupt. A complete failure.

Lets look at other Boeing endeavors to see if the private sector is ever the answer to being on schedule and under budget.

The F-35 - Over budget and behind schedule. http://www.dailytech.com/F35+Program+is+Behind+Schedule+and+Over+Budget+Says+Report/article16867.htm

Boeing building the high tech security wall on the Mexican border. Over budget and behind schedule. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/60minutes/main6067598.shtml

The Boeing Dreamliner is way over budget and almost 3 years behind schedule.

So why would Obama want to go this route. Maybe because Boeing is headquarter in Chicago? What a coincidence that Obama is from Chicago too. I bet Boeing gave a lot of money to Obamas election too. Maybe if the student loan industry gave a lot of money they would still be allowed to exist too.

So Obama thinks going to the moon is too expensive and behind schedule. So his answer is to kill the program. But going to Mars will somehow be more realistic. Even though the technologies being used to develop Constellation will also be used to go to Mars. Obama feels it makes more sense to abandon the 9 Billion dollars spent to start over from square 1. That will save money.

In the short term Obamas vision of our National space agency is to have them incapable of getting into space. They are reduced to fixing Toyota's. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/rocket+scientists+examine+Toyota+accelerators/2747239/story.html

What a national embarrassment.