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Both of the parties are saying the same thing, but they need to show how they are going to go about space. What do they plan on doing about space? Are they going to have goals they want to achieve or some kind of awareness fundraiser that gets people interested in space? I think they need to just mention it a little more because space doesn’t get enough credit it deserves.

There doesn’t need to be focus on space by anyone since it’s not anywhere being a major issue. NASA spends what 0.05% of the U.S. budget so gets a line or a minor mention here or there. Not worth the effort for more.
You heard or watched the nomination launches. You think anyone in those audiences (well maybe a couple) really cared about NASA and what it’s up to. Think again. And Hillary’s also not interested (her expertise and interest seems to lie in foreign affairs) and there will be no revival even if she gets in.

The space policy that W left us with, and which Obama did a mercy killing on, is in the incinerator box out back. That policy was Moon, Moon, and more Moon, and funded by fake money. It is really sad that Griffin did such a hit job on VSE. VSE would have been a true space legacy for W and even the GOP, but it was quickly eclipsed by the big “C”. Pretty funny, really. A constellation is a group of stars that, connecting them together in a totally unphysical way, represents something fantastical or ficticious. An excellent metaphor for what turned out to be an essentially imaginary space effort.

You know, in the 2004 and 2008 Democratic platform, and the 2004 GOP platform, space wasn’t even mentioned. Constellation was worth an oblique reference in one sentence in the GOP 2008 platform. That was it for space. The Dems have one sentence now, and the GOP has about the same content in a paragraph. Seems like we’ve actually come a long way, no?

I look at commercial crew as an implementation strategy, not as a fundamental goal. Party platforms usually shy away from implementation strategies, and leave things like that to administration discretion. The goal that applies to commercial crew in the GOP platform is “foster innovation and competitiveness”, and that in the Dem platform is “builds on America’s legacy of innovation”. Because that’s what commercial is all about. Taking an innovative approach to space exploration that may lower cost and increase capability. It’s about breaking out of the box. It’s a mistake to think that when politicians refer to innovation, they’re just talking about engineering and technology.

I think that all this exasperation about how few words are in the party platforms about space is a bit misguided. Fewer words can be more powerful than lots of words if they’re the right words. But no party leader has a good picture of what the fundamental goals of space exploration should be, so they’re happy to take a pass on just making stuff up. I thank them for that. The GOP meandered around a bit before getting to the point, by giving us a long paragraph reminding us how good we are because of what we’ve done. But that’s not a forward goal.

Despicable. But given the alternative, better than simply uttering, ‘God bless Neil Armstrong.” =eyeroll=

“Is NASA better off than it was 4 years ago?”

No question – YES!

– Four years ago the Constellation program was a fiscal and schedule mess, which the Augustine Commission rightly pointed out that we couldn’t afford it if it was magically handed to us finished. It was an unenthusiastic program that was gobbling up funding for other programs and technologies left and right.

– Four years ago the ISS was going to be the most expensive temporary space program since Skylab, and it would have left our ISS partners with the firm knowledge that the U.S. could not be trusted to be a long-term partner in any space endeavors. Today it has a long and fruitful life ahead of it, as part of the needed ability to understand how we are going to live, work, survive and expand our U.S. presence out into space.

– Four years ago our future was depending on Russia for “low cost” rides to space (the Orion/MPCV is “high cost”), now we have a commercial space transportation industry that is on the verge of dominating LEO.

– Four years ago there was no chance Bigelow Aerospace would have a chance to test out their business plan for leased space stations, and now they are planning to start operation later this decade using the same Commercial Crew providers NASA will use for the ISS.

– Four years ago the JWST was a program out of control. Bolden stepped in and reorganized it well enough that Congress gave them one last chance to finish the program and launch the observatory. Yet another Griffin mess Bolden had to fix.

So again – no question about it, YES NASA is better off today than it was four years ago.

“I should be noted that there was no mention in the Democratic Party platform of the commercial crew effort. That was wise.”

There was no mention of the SLS either, wise or not.

What part of “President Obama has charted a new mission for NASA to lead us to a future that builds on America’s legacy of innovation and exploration” don’t you understand? Commercial Cargo & Crew has been front and center part of his space policy, and “normal” Republicans would embrace that too.

Weird.