Comments on: No, he wasn’t talking about you http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/02/no-he-wasnt-talking-about-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-he-wasnt-talking-about-you 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: Monk http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/02/no-he-wasnt-talking-about-you/#comment-6797 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:13:34 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=818#comment-6797 When looking at politics, what politicians say in speeches is not nearly as important as what they say in budget proposals. Bush hasn’t mentioned the VSE since his initial announcement two years ago, but the money (some of it, anyway) has been there in the budget proposals. I would prefer to have it a priority both in his major public addresses and in the budget, but if I have to choose between the two, I’ll choose the budget.

]]> By: Brent http://www.spacepolitics.com/2006/02/02/no-he-wasnt-talking-about-you/#comment-6796 Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:59:56 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=818#comment-6796 The VSE is a good idea, but the execution has been less than stellar. I think the VSE’s lack of high standing in Bush’s priorities just add more weight to the argument that the real movers in space for the next decade or so will be the start-ups.

Frankly, I think marginalizing NASA enough for the start-ups to make the big advances may be a good thing. Then NASA could better be placed as the R&D division of the US space effort and not be the monolithic “everything in space belongs to me” stale colossus it is today.

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