Posts Tagged ‘nasa’

OBAMA’S NEW NASA FUNDING IS VITAL TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND AMERICAN LEADERSHIP

BUSINESS WIRE 2-3-2010

ORGITAL SCIENCES CORPORATION STATEMENT ON NASA’S NEW DIRECTION, DULLES

Under a new five-year program for the 2011-2015 period, NASA intends to stimulate the development of advanced technologies and new business models, building the foundation for 21st Century solar system exploration, Earth climate monitoring and environmental protection, and next-generation aerospace workforce inspiration and education. By working in innovative new partnerships with U.S. industry and academic institutions, NASA will maintain America’s leadership in space while also contributing substantially to our country’s economic well-being.

As one of the last remaining shuttles takes off for space amid a major readjustment to NASA’s mission by Obama’s new budget, we’ve released an entirely new file of NASA updates to help you on both the affirmative and the negative for NASA Spending debates.

Reuters reports:

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour will

blast off on Sunday on one of the last remaining shuttle missions, and the U.S. agency’s chief said on Saturday the days of big American solo initiatives in space were over.

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Obama’s new budget announced today does increase overall NASA funding and even extends the life of the International Space Station. However, the President took an unprecedented gamble by looking to end funding for the space organization’s manned moon-flight mission.

But the plan ends the Constellation program “which was planning to use an approach similar to the Apollo program to return astronauts back to the Moon 50 years after that program’s triumphs.”

The budget notes that an independent panel found the moon program was years behind schedule.

Is this good or bad for NASA tradeoff scenarios? You can be sure, we will cut some updates for this weekend…

NU – NASA – TRADEOFF

NASA LOSING FUNDING SUSTAINABILITY – OBAMA WON’T PUSH FOR NEW MONEY

HOUSTON CHRONICLE 1-26-2010

FLAT BUDGET LIMITED GOALS MAY BE IN NASA’S FUTURE, BERGER

Far from getting the $3 billion more each year that experts suggest NASA needs for meaningful human spaceflight, President Barack Obama is expected to offer little new money to the space agency when his budget is released Monday.

Although there’s no official word from the White House or NASA, space policy analysts and legislators say it’s likely the space agency’s budget will remain “flat” for the coming year, potentially leaving humans stuck in near-Earth orbit for the foreseeable future.

“If that happens NASA may have to get out of the human spaceflight business, because the money just isn’t going to be there,” said Brett Silcox, an associate director with the National Space Society, a leading space advocacy group.

UIL – NASA FUNDING TRADEOFF WITH SOCIAL SERVICES

OBAMA MUST BALANCE NEW PRIORITIES SUCH AS SOCIAL SERVICES WITH INCREASED NASA BUDGET – NOW IS THE KEY TIME FOR THE NEXT 15 YEARS OF NASA SPACE PRIORITIES***

UPI 12-30-2009

2011 BUDGET KEY TO NASA AMBITIONS, SCIENCE NEWS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (UPI) — The 2011 federal fiscal budget will determine how soon NASAcan afford to send astronauts to the moon or Mars, space policy experts said.

“The next authorization will really set the path of NASA for the next 10 to 20 years,” said Rep.Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., head of the House Science and Technology Committee.

In October, the U.S. Human Space Flight Committee urged President Barack Obama to increase NASA’s funding to about $22 billion a year – $3 billion more than it received in the 2010 budget.

The committee said NASA’s current funding put it on an “unsustainable trajectory” to finance projects such as circumnavigating the moon and Mars or land on one of Mars’ moons during the next 15 years.

Obama, who has described himself as a passionate supporter of the space program, must balance additional funding for NASA against a growing federal deficit and an economy struggling to regain traction, policy experts told USA Today in a story published Wednesday.

The White House releases its fiscal 2011 budget in early February.

IL – NASA FUNDING COMPETES WITH SOCIAL SERVICES

HOUSTON CHRONICLE 8-3-2003

WITH MONEY SHORT AND NOWHERE TO GO, PAGE 2

Three decades after the moon shots, the annual federal budget deficits exceed $ 450 billion and will continue at unacceptably high levels as far as the eye can see. A renewed national commitment to space exploration would raise the deficits unless Congress took the unlikely action of cutting billions of dollars in farm subsidies, pork projects and social services.

We were cutting the NASA tradeoff disad, and wanted to share that we like the NASA website. They have daily images, videos, and lots of neat news and interactive features about space.

Check out a meteor shower later tonight.

Thank you for all the requests for files. We have created quite an assignment list and are diligently working through them.

We’ve posted a stock NASA Tradeoff Disad that was requested. It can be read against any social services affirmative that spends money, and has tricky links that bypass the conventional budget process – due to a way that Congress can sneak money from NASA for pork barrel projects like the plan.

Impacts include Hegemony, Terrorism, Proliferation, China, and of course: Asteroids!

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Also, we are including one of the 1NC internal links as a bonus card of the day for today:

LACK OF CONSISTANT FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR THE SPACE PROGRAM CAUSES IRREPRABLE COLLAPSE – WORKFORCE IS KEY

YOUNG 12-10-2009 – PRESIDENT AND COO MARTIN MARIETTA

COMMITTEE ON HOUSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TESTIMONY

Today in government, universities and industry we have such a workforce. It has evolved over decades of extraordinary successes and tragic failures. Exceptional men and women have invested their professional careers and the United States has invested significant resources to achieve the spaceflight workforce we have today. It is truly a national treasure. Without a challenging and meaningful space program, this national capability will atrophy. It can only be maintained by inspiring use. It has a limited shelf life. As we debate the future of our space program, we must do so recognizing the importance of our spaceflight workforce and the role it will play in the success or failure of the space program of the future. Without proper attention and recognition of its importance, we could make changes that destroy what we have carefully built. I do not suggest change is to be avoided. I do suggest careful thought is necessary. A fundamental rule when debating change is “do no harm.“