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Clown contribution in exchange for access code?
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2020 LEER EN ESPAÑOL
Does Obama Deserve Credit for Elon Musk’s SpaceX Triumph? Yes and No
In 2010 President Obama embraced a surprisingly laissez-faire approach to space flight. By bucking his central planning instincts, he ushered in a new dawn in American space flight.
President Obama congratulated the astronauts on Twitter and noted that it was his administration that “launched the Commercial Crew program to strengthen our U.S. space program.”
Many Twitter users were not happy.
Wasn’t it Obama who dismantled the US space shuttle program? Wasn’t it Obama who gave the Russians “a monopoly on space flight”? How could he claim credit for the triumph of Elon Musk, the rebel engineer and SpaceX founder who did what NASA said could not be done?
Musk is no doubt the hero of America’s new dawn in space exploration, but it’s also true that his achievement would not be possible without the radical and unpopular actions Obama took in 2010 that changed the paradigm of US space flight.
Bucking his central planning instincts, Obama embraced a surprisingly laissez-faire approach to space flight that angered political allies and opponents alike.
In doing so, however, he tapped a reservoir of ingenuity and innovation that has ushered in a new age of space flight and exploration.
2 Americans just landed safely after spending 2 months in space.
11 years ago, an Obama committee concluded that would take 12 years and cost $26 billion. Elon Musk did it in 6 years– for less than $1 billion.
Private competition is always better. #SplashDown #LaunchAmerica pic.twitter.com/J1Ki7gTkw5
— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) August 2, 2020
A New Era in Space Exploration
When Behnken and Hurley splashed into the sunlit Gulf waters on Sunday, it marked a new beginning in space flight.
The successful return of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, which had been sent into orbit with its Falcon 9 rocket, was a milestone in a commercial crew program that began a decade earlier.
.@AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug have been lifted out of the water and are aboard the Go Navigator. Welcome home. #LaunchAmerica pic.twitter.com/gjqUcLMy8X
— NASA (@NASA) August 2, 2020
In her forthcoming book Bureaucrats and Billionaires, former NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver and reporter Michael Sheetz trace the origins of NASA’s commercial crew program, a revolutionary human spaceflight program that joins private aerospace manufacturers such SpaceX and Boeing with NASA’s astronauts.
Garver writes that this hybrid allows space flight “at a fraction of the cost of previous government owned and operated systems.” A decade ago, however, the program faced opposition seemingly from every side.
The saga began early in 2010 when President Obama announced his intention to abort NASA’s Constellation program—NASA’s crew spaceflight program—correctly pointing out it was “over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation.”
The decision angered almost everyone. As Garver and Sheetz write, the program was “extremely popular with Congress, and the contractors who were benefiting from the tax dollars coming their way.” An impressive array of stakeholders from aerospace companies, trade associations, and astronauts to lobbyists, Congressional delegations, and NASA pushed back.
The resistance was immense.
NASA chief Charles Bolden, while choking back tears, compared the decision to “a death in the family.” Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Charles Krauthammer ominously noted the move would give the Russians “a monopoly on rides into space.” Congressman Pete Olson (R-Texas) called the decision “a crippling blow to America’s human spaceflight program.”
Few commentators seemed to even notice the $6 billion in spending over five years to support commercially built spacecraft to launch NASA’s astronauts into outer space.
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https://fee.org/articles/does-obama-deserve-credit-for-elon-musk-s-spacex-triumph-yes-and-no/
I think of SpaceX like I think of Fakebook
It was the bastard child of the US Space Program, just like Fakebook came from Lifelog
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Stockholm Syndrome meets Cognitive Dissonance.
Try to free Slaves, who don't know they're slaves, and that's what happens.
There's that 3 again.
Thought there was also a drop that mentioned 3 second Dan, but can't find it now.
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Thats a 34.
Ties back into POTUS today 1 and 34
Bobby Confirmation and Autism.
Dasting…
DOH.
Part of the "Team"
NFL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION AND NFL TEAM UP WITH USAID AND AD COUNCIL TO TACKLE THE CRISIS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
New PSAs Featuring NFL Players Debut in Time for the Holidays
For Immediate Release
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
USAID Press Office
202-712-4320
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, D.C. - Just in time for the holiday season, a time when charitable giving increases, NFL players have joined FWD, a national public awareness campaign designed to inform Americans of the extreme famine, war and drought in the Horn of Africa. Developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ad Council, the FWD campaign encourages Americans to forward the facts about the crisis and to donate to the relief efforts.
https://2012-2017.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/nfl-players-association-and-nfl-team-usaid-and-ad-council-tackle
ARB ?
ARBs block the action of angiotensin II, a hormone that causes blood vessels to narrow. By blocking this hormone, ARBs relax the blood vessels and lower blood pressure.
I'll Second NOTABLE
Adding a couple Drops.
Full list
https://qalerts.app/?q=Singapore
USAID
Connection directly to Clinton Foundation
This is tick tock for HAITI Connections
All Haiti Drops
https://qalerts.app/?q=Haiti
Thinking something Connecting USAID as the BRIDGE
BIODIVERSITY RESULTS AND INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT GAINS ENHANCED PROJECT
https://biodiversitylinks.org/projects/completed-projects/bridge
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Rachel Chandler
purple MAGAZINE
https://purple.fr/magazine/fw-2010-issue-14/rachel-chandler/
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