Bush did not “lie” about Iraq. As you would say, goofy.

“Building a heavy lifter capable of sending people beyond LEO is on the same level as building an aircraft carrier to strike at enemies of the Republic. Each serves a national need.”

So you’re saying that NASA’s equivalent of a big truck is the same as force projection and national security? I don’t think you understand what the military does.

But setting aside your lack of understanding for the military, the SLS is still a rocket looking for a payload and a mission. Other than Apollo 8 redux, there are no SLS-specific missions funded or even planned.

The SLS is a faith-based initiative, in that people like you have faith that some day there will be a need for at least one SLS rocket. When? No one knows, but when that time comes you’ll be ready to see “told ya so”.

Meanwhile $Billions will have been spent for people to polish SLS chrome here on Earth instead of on exploring space using existing rockets…

Oler, you sound like Mr. Van Driesen in a recent episode of Beavis and Butthead. The purpose of the military is to kill people and break things.>>

goofy

the purpose of the military in The United States is to deter war. We are not an aggressor nation. We became that during Bush the last when he lied about Iraq and its threat to us, but the military’s role since the founding of The Republic has been to deter war. If you dont know that then you dont understand how we are a special nation.

No matter if the super committee succeeds or fails there are budget cuts coming. If it succeeds then there are cuts that they have chosen coming if they fail then the law mandates cuts.

It is that simple…both in current events and history. There is no chance that the super committee will not have cuts and the Congress will decide “OK no cuts at all” …the GOP right wing boxed itself nicely into that one…and one of the first things to go in space funding will be SLS.

watch. you have been wrong on everything since your notion that we would take Iraq and hold it with 50,000 troops

Robert G. Oler

The super committee process is currently falling apart.

By the wall, SLS cannot be “crony capitalism” due to the fact that it isn’t capitalism. Building a heavy lifter capable of sending people beyond LEO is on the same level as building an aircraft carrier to strike at enemies of the Republic>>

actually you got both roles wrong. It comes from being a right winger to lont

A CVN’s role is to keep the peace. For the most part they do it without firing a shot…that is their role. Traditionally only when there has been no alternative to fighting’ that is when they deal with the enemies of The Republic.

SLS has no mission. There is no payload for it, it is being built to no purpose; it is simply pork designed to funnel money to crony capitalism companies who without it would go, without notice out of business…and to keep people like you who think of the US as some teenager shouting “Team USA” or whatever nutty thing you are doing these days.

As for fully funded. LOL, you use to follow politics better then this. When the super committee comes in with its cuts or flounders and the random cutting starts…SLS will be the first to go. Watch

RGO

Commercial crew was given 320 million, in competitively bid, fixed priced, milestone based, contracts. No loan guarantees. A federal agency of the United States has been ordered to purchase a service for a domestic commercial transportation product that is currently non-existant. That federal agency is buying the specific milestones they believe are needed to create the transportation product, by commercial firms. The commercial firm has to fund each milestone themselves and only get paid once the milestone is met. No subsidies, no crony capitalism, no cost plus contracts, no elevator clauses, no pork.

To compare Solyndra to commercial crew would be as insane as someone saying that planet whittington is based in our reality.

2. The Constellation lobby would have taken all the money without Musk’s leadership. As it is, he as least has a little. It is usually best in the long run to say what you think.