Post by glactus on Sept 27, 2011 0:45:28 GMT
Was the cancellation of the Constellation program an Obama mistake? Some say that he has destroyed NASA and with it the American dream. Could Obama have trimmed a once off $100 billion from his annual defense budget of nearly $700 billion when each major power is not an enemy of the other? Has he given China the leeway it needed to get to Mars first? Has the retrenchment of thousands of highly qualified aerospace engineers and technicians permanently damaged the US space industry and put it back 20 years?. These are questions of which the American people should be seeking answers if their great nation is going to be the forerunner in our journey to the stars.
Constellation Program was a human spaceflight program within NASA, the space agency of the United States. The stated goals of the program were to gain significant experience in operating away from Earth's environment, develop technologies needed for opening the space frontier, and conduct fundamental science.
To Lunar orbit
Constellation began in response to the goals laid out in the Vision for Space Exploration under NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. It had already begun development, under several proposals After Sean O'Keefe's retirement, his replacement Michael D. Griffin ordered a complete review, termed the Exploration System Architecture Study, which reshaped how NASA would pursue the goals laid out in the Vision for Space Exploration.
The Orion crew vehicle
With the NASA Authorization Act of 2005 formalizing the findings of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study, work began on this revised Constellation Program to send astronauts first to the International Space Station, then to the Moon, and afterward to Mars and other destinations beyond.
To the Moon and beyond
February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to cancel the program, effective with the UP.S. 2011 fiscal year budget, but later announced changes to the proposal in a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010. Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 on October 11 which brought the program to an end, but Constellation contracts remain in place until Congress acts to overturn the previous mandate.
The program has been replaced by the U.S. National Space Policy of the Barack Obama administration. NASA announced that it had selected the design of the Space Launch System in September 2011.
To see 2 videos of the Constellation program just click on the links below. Have sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhpIS3NriHs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtL5k_iKtr4&feature=related
Credits: These are non copywrite images
Text by Wikipedia
VideoS by YouTube
Constellation Program was a human spaceflight program within NASA, the space agency of the United States. The stated goals of the program were to gain significant experience in operating away from Earth's environment, develop technologies needed for opening the space frontier, and conduct fundamental science.
To Lunar orbit
Constellation began in response to the goals laid out in the Vision for Space Exploration under NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe. It had already begun development, under several proposals After Sean O'Keefe's retirement, his replacement Michael D. Griffin ordered a complete review, termed the Exploration System Architecture Study, which reshaped how NASA would pursue the goals laid out in the Vision for Space Exploration.
The Orion crew vehicle
With the NASA Authorization Act of 2005 formalizing the findings of the Exploration Systems Architecture Study, work began on this revised Constellation Program to send astronauts first to the International Space Station, then to the Moon, and afterward to Mars and other destinations beyond.
To the Moon and beyond
February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama announced a proposal to cancel the program, effective with the UP.S. 2011 fiscal year budget, but later announced changes to the proposal in a major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010. Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 on October 11 which brought the program to an end, but Constellation contracts remain in place until Congress acts to overturn the previous mandate.
The program has been replaced by the U.S. National Space Policy of the Barack Obama administration. NASA announced that it had selected the design of the Space Launch System in September 2011.
To see 2 videos of the Constellation program just click on the links below. Have sound
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhpIS3NriHs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtL5k_iKtr4&feature=related
Credits: These are non copywrite images
Text by Wikipedia
VideoS by YouTube