Comments on: Is Bolden in the doghouse with the White House? http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/09/22/is-bolden-in-the-doghouse-with-the-white-house/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-bolden-in-the-doghouse-with-the-white-house 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: Chris Castro http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/09/22/is-bolden-in-the-doghouse-with-the-white-house/#comment-328786 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:05:41 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3921#comment-328786 If he goes, then good riddance!! Charlie Bolden has been a disaster for NASA! He never should’ve gotten the job. All this “Let’s do asteroids instead of the Moon” rhino dung: What the freak were they thinking?! There’s NOTHING worthwhile for our astronauts to be doing on asteroids! Leave all the NEO’s to robots, for now! Unmanned probes will get you all the credible scientific scrutiny you’d ever need on them! For the foreseeable future. The Moon is the place where bases & major surface operations could be mounted, near term. The Moon is the new Antarctica! Let’s begin an Operation Highjump equivalent over there! Project Apollo was the dogsled reaching of Luna. Now, in century 21, NASA can build upon those distant past acheivements. The Orion-Altair missions will teach us tremendous things, about outpost operations on a planetary surface. Boys, let’s get on with it! Admiral Byrd, sir, we are ready to scale Mount Erebus!

]]> By: Wodun http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/09/22/is-bolden-in-the-doghouse-with-the-white-house/#comment-328743 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:08:23 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3921#comment-328743 Media is global. Obama can’t be angry with Bolden because us rubes back in the states can hear what he says in other countries.

Bolden is only doing Obama’s bidding and Obama should defend him for it.

]]> By: amightywind http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/09/22/is-bolden-in-the-doghouse-with-the-white-house/#comment-328720 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:10:37 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3921#comment-328720 Bolden is actually a tragic figure. He was swept into office because he met the ethnicity requirements and was willing to carry water for Obama. He is not really an administrator. He is neither a strong NASA insider, nor a powerful, credible outsider. But he was given a bad plan, and was egged on by the bad advice of his aids (Garver). He is ill equipped to navigate the NASA bureaucracy and fend off the back biting in congress. Compare him to the savvy Defense Secretary Robert Gates. No comparison. So like every one else in the administration that has failed miserably (like the economic team), Bolden is being thrown under the bus. I am sure he will be relieved to get a new job. I for one will be happy when this group is gone. A GOP congress will prevent Obama from doing worse.

]]> By: dad2059 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2010/09/22/is-bolden-in-the-doghouse-with-the-white-house/#comment-328672 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:50:38 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=3921#comment-328672 That has already generated some criticism from other quarters that such efforts are also a distraction.

Yes it is a distraction and I’m sure Mr. Bolden knows it.

And I’m sure he doesn’t care if he gets the boot or not.

He probably figures he’s taken enough bullets for the Administration.

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