Comment Re:It's not spin, it's Obama's personal priorities (Score 2, Interesting) 450
Mr. Obama’s proposal would further dismantle what remains of the human spaceflight initiative started by the Bush administration in 2004. Last year, $3.5 billion in spending was cut from President George W. Bush’s NASA budget projection for 2011 through 2013, money that would have been used to develop the lander that was to return astronauts to the moon by 2020.
The proposed budget increase would also be much less than the $3-billion-a-year increase that a blue-ribbon committee appointed by the Obama administration said was needed for NASA to successfully pursue a human spaceflight program beyond low-Earth orbit.
Doesn't sound like Bush II was quite so friendly to the space program, eh?
I honestly think that it's worth a shot to try and take the space program to the free market. It doesn't always work out but I feel it has the best shot of reducing costs and potentially accelerating space development by transferring it from a government monopoly to competitive entities.
