Leaving Space Behind

Barack Hussein Obama promised in his campaign for the highest office to be the "science President", emphasizing what he saw as his difference with George W. Bush who was lampooned as something of a Luddite. One of the areas of science where great progress had been made by the United States has been space exploration. America is the only nation to have put men on the moon, has led in the development of satellite technology, and there have been numerous subsidiary benefits from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ranging far beyond Velcro and Tang. Yet our so-called science President is gutting NASA, limiting resources dramatically for future space exploration and a return for man to the moon, and all but destroying the prospect of a manned mission to Mars, all while killing the Space Shuttle program and leaving the thousands of workers associated with it, particularly those in Florida, jobless or in retraining programs with no real prospect of finding other employment in the teeth of the Obama recession which some are euphemistically calling our jobless recovery. The original purpose of America's entry into the space race was of course national defense, embarked upon after the Soviet Union gained an early advantage by launching Sputnik. Now, the United States is contracting out all our journeys to the International Space Station to the Russians, the very same nation who we have just accused of spying on us. And it only gets worse from there with the Obama administration pursuing space cooperation with Communist China who already used contacts with President Clinton's administration to gain Loral technology that was supposed to be for peaceful space research to accuracize her missiles and create MIRVs, in this case multiple independently targeted warheads attached to one intercontinental ballistic missile. So we will be sharing our most high tech advancements with a nation Red China which is definitely seeking regional domination and may well be after world hegemony. It is uncertain what China will be giving us in this relationship as they are clearly several generations of technology behind us, so they have everything to gain and nothing to lose in a space partnership with America. Obama is about to give away our technological advantage.