Comments on: Kerry’s space advisors http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kerrys-space-advisors Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/#comment-883 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:09:15 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=243#comment-883 Bi-partisan or bust!

Magenta is my new favorite color. Time to tell Bob Zubrin to stamp out some new magenta Mars buttons. ;-)

Space policy will not decide who wins in November. Iraq might. Whether someone is blue or red, we all should pressure Kerry and Bush to talk as pro-space as possible between now and November.

And slapping the hands of those Democrats who do extend their hand in alliance – – like me – – is simply bad diplomacy.

]]> By: NASAWatch.INFO http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/#comment-882 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:01:03 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=243#comment-882 As a follow-up, I’ve read in the past that Kerry has been one of the top recipients of SOFT MONEY in the U.S. Senate. It’s now banned, but do we really think Kerry would turn around and annoy those donors (which can still help his prospects) by offering ADEQUATE competitive prizes?

]]> By: NASAWatch.INFO http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/#comment-881 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:13:42 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=243#comment-881 As for John Kerry’s supposed dedication to prizes, why would the civil service labor union (which rightly fears prizes) be embracing him so handily if he were doing anything more than merely talking the talk but not walking the walk (Dan Goldin style) regarding future prize offerings? For more on Kerry’s hefty support by the NASA labor unions:

http://www.spaceprojects.com/bureaucrats

Would anyone here deny that John Kerry’s notorious for taking BOTH sides of an issue, however it suits him at the moment? Prizes were proposed by Lori Garvery at NASA HQ during the ’90’s, but according to NASA HQ’s budget guru Steve Isaacowitz, the item was never proposed to Congress by Goldin and the Clinton Administration. Do we want to risk a Kerry presidency whereby the political breakthrough made by the Bush Administration (Centennial Challenges and DARPA’s Grand Challenge) could get squandered to win favor with the voting tax leeches I mean civil servants?

Meanwhie, Dwayne Day claims in a subsequent thread in this forum that a current Congress can’t force a future one to spend money. How does he reconcile that claim with how this is already part of NASA’s APPROVED budget?

“Funds for announced prizes otherwize authorized shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until the prize is claimed or the offer is withdrawn.”

For the source, see http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes

]]> By: Perry A. Noriega http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/#comment-880 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:09:09 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=243#comment-880 About time space advocates stopped arguing with each other, and started working together! Sounds like what I recommended to the Mars Underground and the space is a place for only science to be done crowd at CU Boulder 20 years ago. Nice to see these supposed “experts” on space finally catch up to where the common man was twenty some years ago.

Now if they really wanted to get the two major political parties treat space as other than a very peripheral issue, and do something to put their money where their mouths were, that would be even better.

]]> By: Andrew Gray http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/#comment-879 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:28:10 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=243#comment-879 A Magenta Charter?

(sorry)

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/#comment-878 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:19:31 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=243#comment-878 Correction! Red & blue make magenta, sorta purple, I guess.

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/color/light/magenta.html

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What we space advocates need is the Magenta Agenda for space.

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/14/kerrys-space-advisors/#comment-877 Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:16:13 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=243#comment-877 A key talking point of the Space Exploration Alliance Moon-Mars blitz was that space policy needs to be bi-partisan.

The Democratic staffers I spoke to unanimously agreed that America needs a space goal that is beyond Low Earth Orbit.

America’s vision for space must survive 20 years, 30 years or 50 years and transitions in political power will necessarily occur. To allow space to become an divise issue in the 2004 political season betrays the goals space advocates seek.

This weekend I met and worked with many “purple” teams composed of avid Democrats (blue) and avid Republicans (red). I was greatly encouraged that on space issues we could mix red & blue (which makes purple) and genuinely work together.

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