Obama has been a tad tardy keeping promises concerning space policy.

Safe Hollywood Villains

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Teddy Kennedy did something that was likely worse than Chappaquiddick. It involved conspiracy with a Soviet dictator in 1983 to oppose the President of his country, Ronald Reagan.

But selling out to the Soviets in such a fashion comes dangerously close to treason. The Soviets weren’t just some other nation a hemisphere away. In the 1980s, they were our mortal enemies, and almost ready to collapse. Kennedy didn’t just offer to allow our enemy to manipulate our elections, but offered to take positive action for them to succeed in that effort.

That’s more than just personal cowardice and betraying the trust of a young woman, resulting in her death. Morally if not legally, the Andropov gambit was a betrayal of American independence and security by a high-ranking politician. It should stand as a singular denunciation of Kennedy as a power-hungry, contemptible politician. Like in Chappaquiddick, the only reason it hasn’t is because of his family name.

Addendum: James Oberg adds this:

It really was worse than this claims. In 1983 Andropov became
convinced that the US was preparing a sneak attack, and
put the USSR on a pre-emptive 'defensive strike' posture. He alerted
Soviet intelligence services to collect data on possible precursor
moves -- for example, larger blood drives than normal, for casualties.
Kennedy, of course, didn't know this -- but clearly his approach to him,
and the portrait of Reagan as a warmonger, would have been seen
by Andropov as further confirmation of his paranoid fantasies. If
the world came very, very close to nuclear war in 1983, as now seems
likely, Kennedy's posturing contributed to it.

Well, Teddy would not have been the first Kennedy whose actions almost resulted in the end of the world.

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Democrats stoned out of their minds? It would explain a lot.

G. Ryan Faith suggests Give NASA a Clear Mission, which would be to explore space. Meanwhile, Taylor Dinerman muses on Protecting the space workforce. There are a lot of nasty people on the Internet who would just love to see mass layoffs at NASA and the contractors, but Dinerman points out the waste in knowledge and experience that entails.

Chandrayaan-I mission ends as contact is lost

Just because Augustine 2.0. has plans for space exploration does not mean that others can't play. An interesting example with justifications.

My apologies for being unable to post for the past two or three days. We were switching virus protecting systems and some complications ensued. But we are now back in business.

While we're all mourning the Liberal Lion of the Senate, let's have a word aout Teddy Kennedy's sense of humor, specifically about Chappaquiddick

I guess you had to have been there...

NASA's budget and the cost of space exploration

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Moon baseball.

Twenty five years after it was first proposed, the space station will at long last start doing science.

Some right wing nut said the following in defense of trucking deregulation:

The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of laissez-faire, unbridled competition. They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the umbrella of federal regulations.

The nut's name was Teddy Kennedy.

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Teddy Kennedy's body has hardly turned cold and the Left is using his death to try to pass health care reform. "Let's pass it for Teddy!" goes the rallying cry. It's a rather cynical ploy to try to infuse the dead corpse of health care reform with Ted Kennedy's spirit.

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