Marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of Russia's Sputnik, Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton rolled out her science and space agenda today.
In a news release posted at hillaryclinton.com, Clinton vowed to end the Bush Administration's "war on science" and announced an agenda that would "promote scientific discovery in research, medicine and space exploration."
"For six and half years under this president, it's been open season on open inquiry. And by ignoring or manipulating science, the Bush administration is letting our economic competitors get an edge in the global economy," Clinton said.
"I believe we have to change course -- and I know America is ready. What America achieved after Sputnik is a symbol of what America can do now as we confront a new global economy, new environmental challenges, and the promise of new discoveries in medicine. America led in the 20th century -- and with new policies and a renewed commitment to scientific integrity and innovation, America is ready to lead in the 21st."
You can check out the release in its entirety here: Hillary on Science.
Here is a cut-and-paste excerpt that detail the candidate's position on space exploration:
"Enhancing American Leadership in Space
Pursue an Ambitious 21st century Space Exploration Program. Hillary is committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities. She will speed development, testing, and deployment of next-generation launch and crew exploration vehicles to replace the aging Space Shuttle. And in pursuing next-generation programs, Hillary will capitalize on the expertise of the current Shuttle program workforce and will not allow a repeat of the "brain drain" that occurred between the Apollo and shuttle missions.
Develop a comprehensive space-based Earth Sciences agenda. A National Academy of Sciences report found that "[a]t a time of unprecedented need, the nation's Earth observation satellite programs, once the envy of the world, are in disarray." (NAS final report of the Decadal Survey Panel, [January 2007].) Incredibly, the number of operating sensors and instruments on NASA satellites that observe the Earth is likely to drop by 35 percent by 2010 and 50 percent by 2015. Among other things, NASA's Earth Sciences program is vital to our country's -- and the world's -- long-term efforts to confront climate change. Hillary will fully fund NASA's Earth Sciences program and initiate a Space-based Climate Change Initiative to help us secure the scientific knowledge we need to combat global warming and to prepare for extreme climate events.
Shore up American leadership in aeronautics. At the beginning of this year, President Bush requested roughly $554 million for NASA's aeronautics research budget, down from more than $1 billion in 2004. The United States has enjoyed a positive trade balance in aeronautics and aerospace technologies that runs into the tens of billions, even as we've faced a growing overall trade deficit. To address the twin challenges of a declining skilled aeronautics workforce and increasing global competition in aeronautics, Hillary will make the financial investments in research and development necessary to shore up and expand our competitive edge. She will also work in partnership with industry to build technologies and capabilities that yield benefits far beyond aerospace."
We'll be happy to post any press release or white papers that outline the positions of any candidate on space exploration. Your comments also are welcome below.
IMAGE NOTE: Click to enlarge the Associated Press photo of Hillary Rodman Clinton speaking at a rally last Sunday in Oakland, Calif.
87 comments:
This brings tears to my eyes, just a few years ago the "Clintons" cared less for the miltary or Space programs.
Now she needs the "Florida Votes" we are on her screen for money she is with us.
We will get moneys right after healhcare and welfair reform.
She is not going to make the mistake Gore and kerry made
we are on her screen for now.
This only be until after the election she was for the war just after she was not
Where the wind blows.
I just found my next presidential selection.
She is much more pro-human space flight than I would have guessed and more than most democrats. Hopefully it holds if she gets elected.
Who said Democrats aren't in favor of man flight or the entire peaceful space program, Rush Limbaugh? Think back, it was a Democrat that started the program.
Labor needs a democratic president. If your job involves sweating, you should seriously look to the democratic party.
You've got to be joking. Sweating equates to voting Democratic? You DO need to be replaced. Get a grip on this fact, you are not coming back.
I am changing parties, I will never vote for another Republican nor Bill Nelson. He has his hands in USA's pockets big time. Hill might be the one.
I might vote Dem, but I know it won't be for Hillary. She is a scary lady and puts on whatever political face that will get the vote.
The replacement workers we've seen for the last couple of months have given USA reason not to end the strike. They are working very hard and are not just doing what is acceptable to get by. They have got us way ahead on several projects. I hope they get to stay.
Just look what the Clinton's did for the Chinese space program!
Look at her record. She flip flops on everything. I will not trust anything she says.
I think 2:32 meant to say:
Labor needs a democratic president. If your life involves striking, you should seriously look to the democratic party.
No, it was a Republican who signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, not a Democrat. And before you trot out the crap that Eisenhower was asleep at the switch and it took Kennedy's administration to make things start happening, read McDougall's "The Heavens & the Earth." Larger geopolitical realities shaped early policy (especially the question of the legality of satellite overflight of foreign territory), and most importantly Eisenhower feared what a bloated US govt space program might end up becoming...and guess what? He was DEAD ON.
As for Ms. Rodham-Clinton's offered space policy, it sounds remarkably familiar: the first portion is nearly identical to her husband's (and Mr. Gore's) pre-election suggested policy (which translated into nothing more than the status quo (and, later, that great money-saving scheme (sic) of joining with the Russians on ISS), again dressed up in the latest griping (and woefully one-sided) headlines to ensure support from those disaffected by current budget realities.
Let's be honest, folks. Only ONE Democratic president EVER expanded the US space program, and that was (in part) to move the Bay of Pigs, Gagarin's flight, and bad events in southeast Asia out of the headlines (Oval Office recordings even document how little JFK cared about the program). All the others since then (beginning with Mr. Carter) have subscribed to the smallest possible space program they felt they could get away with (since space workers do vote, of course).
While the road has been rocky and Congress (and OMB, and even NASA itself) have done their part to muck the programs up (mostly by forcing NASA to be penny-wise and pound-foolish), it was a Republican president who approved the shuttle (Nixon), proposed/
approved the station (Reagan), proposed the Space Exploration Initiative (George HW Bush-NASA killed this one all by itself by bloating it out into unaffordability), and proposed/approved the VSE (George W. Bush).
So, if a growing space program is what you'd like to see, study the history--all of it--and think very carefully about your vote.
Sounds like we just found our first governor of the Moon. Dust off the Saturn V plans and we could easily launch her by election time. We have the technology...just do it!
As President Hillary WILL build a
Spacecraft and The 1st person to fly in it will be 1st "Lady Bill".
Better yet just modify a Port a Let
put it on the launch pad and send it on its way! Taco-One ready for liftoff!!She is BLUFFING!!
This coming from the person responsible for not allowing military personnel on duty in the white house to wear their uniforms because she found it offensive and didn't want to acknowledge their presence. Yeah right....
This is all BS. She could care less about the space program or the US Military personnel.
President Nixon, a republican, ok'd the final space shuttle design.
Now how about that, the Seahag of the democrat socialist party salutes or should I say salyutes the space program with her own space cadet ideas.
Not on the day the first American satellite went into orbit(which by the way was Jan 31, 1958 for all you retarded out there)but on the day the communists launched theirs. What did little old Sputnik do? It beeped and beeped some more.
Explorer 1 the first US satellite, contained a cosmic ray detector, radio transmitter, and temperature and micrometeoroid sensors, oh and by the way it discovered the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
What a Seahag! Who remembers that Nikita Hhrushchev promised the United States that his missiles would rain down upon the us? Hmmmmm?
Putin is doing that aigain too
Labor needs a democrat president??? yea so they can raise the minimum wage say up to $8 or $9 an hour and fools like you will think they're rich. It's morons like you who are destroying this country.
To the bright boy or girl who said that the democrats are for manned spaceflight and Rush said they weren't. Hey tard go check out the votes of the senate and house for the past 20 years and you'll see who was for what and who wasn't.
I'm amazed that you could even post to this blog.
ok, where is the web site where you got your information? I'm willing to take a look. "tard"? thats not very kind, does your mommy know that you are on the internet again?
The First manned space program was started by Ike.
Think who started the Space and put the funds into the program
JFK climed on the bad wagon then Johnson cut the program funding after we landed on the Moon.
Then Tricky funded the shuttle.
Carter did not do anything.
Ronald put a ton of money into Space and the sysstems.
Along came the "Clintons" who were against Miltary and the Space all for the social programs.
Getting past the usual political and union talking points that seem to dominate here lately...
This is a nothing comment. It's the kind of general, "I'm for motherhood and apple pie" comment any candidate can make (after their staff writes it for them) and which commits them to nothing. And I say that as a Democrat.
Let's be honest. None of the candidates care about spaceflight one way or the other, and their "policy" will be framed to do two things: Keep their campaign contributors happy, and attract voters in places like the Space Coast. Given a choice, the former of those two will come first.
Hey Rich:
I think the fact that Hillary said she would speed up development of the Ares and Orion projects is significant. It's a much stronger lean toward human space flight than the Kerry-Edwards campaign had in 2004 -- especially given that Bush had just rolled out the VSE 10 months before the election.
It also shows that we on The Space Coast can leverage our position at the east end of the I-4 corridor, which will provide the key swing vote in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. We should be pushing all the candidates to outpromise themselves in regard to their commitments to the space program. As a friend of mine says, The Keys To The Oval Office Are At KSC.
Todd
Space will never be a major presidential campaign issue for any candidate, ever, and even not in Florida. The demographics and pressing issues here would dictate that the Social Security system's impending collapse, health care, health insurance, catastrophe insurance, taxes and any number of other issues will always outweigh in most people's minds the importance of space exploration. No president's going to kill the space program or even substantially weaken, nor is any going to devote a ton of political time advancing a major space effort because it's not important enough in the grand scheme of daily life of most Americans to spend that much time on. Space is important, but it's not going to rise above those other issues in the minds of regular voters -- and therefore, presidential candidates would be foolish to say much more than the same answers we'll get from every single candidate. I support space and technology. Of course, they do. We spend very little on it. It gets them great publicity and public pride most of the time. It advances civilization. It's not controversial. The only people against are the ill-informed who for some reason still believe we're spending a ton of money on it. Anyway, the point being -- I wouldn't expect to see much excitement during the campaign about space exploration or anything with any more detail than this non-binding statement from Mrs. Clinton. I doubt most of the candidates will even know enough about what we all consider the important issues to even engage intelligently in a debate of what the policy ought to be. Once they are elected, they'll get the briefings necessary and folks in executive branch beyond the West Wing will give them advice on what to do. I think Bush felt strongly about space exploration in general, but I don't think he was the brainchild behind the current vision. It's called the president's vision, but it's really the vision of a select band of White House staffers and some insiders at NASA who put this thing together, laid it in front of a generally-supportive president at a key moment and got the go-ahead. That he gave a speech on it is indicative of his personal, general support for the idea of continued exploration. Every president -- every human being -- ought to be in favor of that. Anyone against exploring doesn't understand the nature of the human mind or spirit. Anyway, I'm glad she went on the record and I hope others do but don't look for inspiration on this issue from the candidates. And, I wouldn't make my vote based on what they say about space. Too many other issues outweigh in the grand scheme of things in our country today.
What are we going to hate when the strike is resolved?
dont worry thats a LONG ways away.
A famous patriot of the USA once said "Give me Cheetos or give me Tator Tots" wait thats not right,different blog, sorry Fred!!!
IT NEVERS MATTERS IF 'CLINTON '
IS NOT THE RECORD.
THEY CHANGE WITH WHAT EVER IS THE BEST NEWS PRINT.
SHE FORGOT WHAT SHE SAID WHEN SHE WALKED OUT THE DOOR.
THEY ARE FOR EVERYTHING AND YET NOTHING EXECPT THE ROAD TOO THE WHITE HOUSE.
I VOTED FOR IT, BEFORE I VOTED AGAINST IT, REMEMBER THESE WORDS FOR SHE WILL LIVE BY THEM.
WHAT HAS GIVEN THE "IAM" THAT THE STRIKE IS GOING TOO BE SETTLED.
THE "IAM" MUST WHAT TO BUY THE OLD OFFER?????????????????????
PS> Has the "IAM" been summoned to Washington or the White House again?????????????
What the crap are you trying to say?
I like turtles!
To all IAM members do not forget your added donation too the Democrat party.
The IAM members must get tired of dues donations and strikes.
Notice that the IAM management team never go on strike.
The team makes sure they are paid received great benefits and that the donations get to the party.
What a wonderful life they lead.
The letter Lew, the letter Johnny.
Barfburners coming to the line.
We're suing NASA.
Meet at the park speaker is coming!
We've been summoned to DC!
Almost there!! Won't be long!!
The song remains the same.
USA is a good company to work for. Nothing like it around. Our benefits are incredible. I drive by with utter disdain for these pathetic greed mongers. USA, you are a good company, DO NOT BUDGE against these people.
Dumb an dumber hope the Democrat Party will get their jobs back so they can walk off the job again at the end of the next contract.
Believe me it will happen again with Gen. Walker as BA he loves a good strike.
I see dumb people!! Theys holdin signs!!
What in the H-E double Johnny Walker bottles possesed those people to walk out? Oh well, I hear Barnum and Bailey is starting up clown college soon.
At least the Ringling Bros. clown college in Baraboo, WI provided happiness to people instead of hate like you folks at the space center.
A union member committed suicide yesterday because his house went into foreclosure and his child was diagnosed with leukemia both in the same week. Please end this strike before anyone else is hurt.
Do you here Cher singing, Mech Tech? "If I Could Turn Back Time". If a vote were taken today on the very first offer, it would pass overwhelmingly. But, greed. Now, pride. Even Fred is stunned into silence.
The negotiating committee is a NO GOOD SCAB !! You betrayed your people!!
Hey boys and girls, Uncle Fred IS BACK. I see that a lot of you have been naughty again, pretending to have origional philosophical ideas. In fact it is the same 'ol worthless nonsense. other than all of this, what else is new?
Dumb an dumber will have to wait for their candiate to get elected to office.
Walker will be summoned to the White House.
The offer will be the old offer at best.
But they should hold out for backpay and sign bonus remember their "PRIDE".
BROTHERS HOLD OUT FOR BACKPAY AND SIGN BONUS WE ARE ALLMOST THERE?
TAYLOR STREET HAS SPOKEN
Has anyone noticed how fast 16 weeks can pass.
Just in the fleck of an eye.
Another 16 weeks will past just as quickly.
But whom is counting?
--. USA, you are a good company, DO NOT BUDGE against these people.--
usa IS GONE THEY WILL BID ON THE LOG SIDE IF YOU ARE NOT IN LOG. YOU WILL WORK FOR A.T.K THEY HAVE REP's ON SITE LAST MONTH TO START THE BID AND AND WE WILL FALL INTO S.G.S O.P CONTRACT AND NO LONGER BE IN FLIGHT OP's CONTRACT SO ENJOY NOW YOU WILL SEE THE END SOON AND AS ALWAYS (usa LOVES YOU)
8:02, you better snuff out that J, cause your gray matter is fried already.
8:02 Are you drinking the IAM koolaid?
1. Walker is being summoned to Washington to buy the contract.
2. We are taking NASA to court.
3. Walker has been summoned to Huston.
4. Congress is going to get USA.
5. USA is out of a job.
Drink more Koolaid.
THE IAM AT THE PRESENT HAS NO CONTRACT WITH USA.
THUS CAN NOT BE FOLDED IN TO ANYTHING THIS IS "PURE SMOKE"
FROM TAYLOR STREET.
Go for it "Clinton" get all the Labor Money, everyone does all it requires is a promise.
No future action.
someone in HR with the initials B.A. said Florida USA is filling heat from Houston and Washington
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the mediator of thes blogs can suck a bowling ball through a water hose look at other blogs you have to set up a screen name but for this labor dispute and any space talk you can be anonymous
fred murtz
Hey USA instead of trying to get rid of the strikers start here on the inside I could probably least 50 drunks and potheads/druggies that some how get through the year without random testing let me know I'll start tattling just like the rest of the group b/c thats what you really want no layoffs just the employees pssd off at one another so they rat one another out.
If the people that blog on here really work for USA be careful point a finger and three fingers are pointing to you and trust me I could really clean house on what I know about most of you in some way or another. An excellent movie had a saying keep your friends close and your enemies even closer!!!!!!!!
Excellent code of ethics out there filling jobs with managements pets, children, or husband and wives instead of coming to an agreement with the ones that worked there for years. Excellent company Excellent
RATS, DRUNKS, DRUGGIES, POTHEADS, I THINK THAT SAYS IT ALL.
WHAT A GREAT CREW OF IAM MEMBERS WHAT A GREAT CREW TOO HAVE ON YOUR PROGRAM.
WHO WOULD WANT THIS BUNCH?
THE 'IAM' PROTECTS THEM ALL AND ENSURES THEY STAY ON THE PROGRAM.
GO USA IMPROVE THE WORK PROGRAM STAY THE COURSE REPLACE THE 'IAM' WITH PRODUCTIVE WORKERS.
THE ENEMIES OF THE SPACE PROGRAM ARE AT THE GATE EXCELLANT.
A NEW MOVIE ENDING.
The "IAM" will only agree on their terms so there can be no agreement period.
Pride go before the fall through out history, so the IAM is making history.
Notice the letter differance between agree and greed.
Listen here sport. It seems to me that over the years, all the people being sent out the gate for theft, drugs, alcohol, and general crime have been from the OSBs and the OPFs. The union seems to be just a bunch of honest blue collar workers looking to get a fair contract with the company.
We don't just simply wish to agree on our terms. We agreed to mediation. If you look at the company's offer at mediation and then take a look at the union's offer, you would find that the union was much closer to the original offer than the company. And we did not leave mediation. The company did. So it seems as though your arguement is hogwash.
It takes two to tango and the compny should not agree to mediation if they are not willing to come to mediation to listen as well as talk. This has turned into something personal for HR and they should be relieved of their duties because they cannot negotiate with a clear consience.
USA CEO = resigned
NASA IG = under investigation
UNION = backed by congress
who's next on the bye bye list????
Sport, When you tango both partners have too know the same dance steps.
Both teams are dancing to a different and step maybe you should teach them the dance that you perfer.
Sent walker too dancing school he certainly needs some new steps on how to negotiate contracts.
Teach him the old soft shoe.
I don't know who you ar 8:43, but I really like the way you think.
WE ALL LOVE GOOD SPORTS DON'T WE?
THE BAD SPORTS ARE THE PROBLEM.
8:43 It is everyone's job to turn in anyone who could endanger a launch.
It is no excuse if they are in or out of your organization.
I would think "Walker" is on the bye bye list????
Or can he not be replaced??
Sport, When you tango both partners have too know the same dance steps.
Both teams are dancing to a different and step maybe you should teach them the dance that you perfer.
Sent walker too dancing school he certainly needs some new steps on how to negotiate contracts.
Teach him the old soft shoe.
Okay Ace. Let's see if I can decipher what you are attempting to say. How about this. I'll answer and if you understand, then I'll know if I understood what you said.
When two are trying to tango(negotiate), and they are dancing to two different steps(contract offers aren't the same), then they go to dance school(mediation).
If the instructor(mediator) tries to teach you to dance together properly(mediates), and one of you can't take the time to stand there and listen(company) and leaves before the lesson is over(walks out on the mediator), then nobody is going to get anywhere(no resolution). The one who walked out(company) should not say that the other dancer(union) doesn't know how to dance(negotiate). Because the other dancer(union) came to learn from the instructor(mediator) how to dance(negotiate) with the other partner(company) and are willing to work with the other dancer(company) who left because he thinks he is the best dancer and nobody can teach them anything(can't take the time to listen as well as talk and negotiate in good faith).
Here endeth the lesson.
I think that the only thing that will resolve this strike is a thermo nuclear device.
Can you imagine the violence that would erupt if the strikers were actually to be fired. My God, I can see the National Guard being involved.
I have two friends that resigned but others above them did not for misuse of money/material what do you think about whistleblowers?
ACE, THE WAY I HEAR IT DURING THE TANGO, THE UNION REP STEPPED ON THE TOE OF THE COMPANY REP.
THE UNION DID NOT SAY I AM SORRY AND THE COMPANY REP LEFT THE DANCE HALL.
THE INSTRUCTOR WILL HAVE TO RESCHEDULE ANOTHER DANCE LESSON AND
INSTRUCT ON GOOD MANNERS WHILE DANCING.
Maybe the company rep shouldn't be so thin skinned when the union rep tells him his dancing stinks. Lord knows the union rep has heard it from the company rep. And the union rep never walked out on class. That is when, instead of walking out on dance class, the company rep should allow the dance instructor to show both sides proper edicate in dancing together and choosing kind words. However, the company rep's ego has been hurt and he took his dancing shoes and went home to mommy. But mommy has left because they won't let her drink at home. However, company rep now has a new mommy who might make him play nice and quit being a big baby. He will never learn to dance with anybody if he keeps getting his feelings hurt. Time to grow up and be a big boy. Play nice and all will be better for it.
Hope none of you bloggers make more than $21.00hr and senoirity= termination
the company is trying to work towards 4,000 less employees figure it out who goes first
Screw them all! The whole space center can dry up and blow away for all we care.
Your so right brevard county makes New York look small and the income here is above and beyond the economy scale. DUMBASS
Leave those scumbags out there, we need their jobs! Thermal tiles don't put them selves on.
Some of the replacements have already been asking about how to get the Teamsters in there. One was fired.
Haa, USA wanted to hold back a thousand dollars from you so you wouldn't retaliate but they should be holding it back from us. Because we WILL RETALIATE!!!
Retaliate as to drive by at 70mph and give the finger
I heard about the teamsters being notified I know the treasurer Clay Jefferies
goiam.org/join
fill out a request form
1-800 2GET-UAW (1-800-243-8829)
to join UAW
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JOIN A UNION HAVE A VOICE BETTER PAY, BETTER BENEFITS, BETTER WAY OF LIFE
DO IT FOR YOURSELF PUT THE BACKBONE
BACK IN YOUR FLESH GIVE YOUR LIPS A REST
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I would rather have the Teamsters in than "Clinton" she will make the Teamsters look like boyscouts.
Folks you have not see anything yet she has Bill walking a tight rope if she left him he would have "nothing".
When she is in as President and when she leaves office we will have "nothing".
goiam.org/join
fill out a request form
1-800 2GET-UAW (1-800-243-8829)
to join UAW
teamster.org
fill out a request form
JOIN A UNION HAVE A VOICE BETTER PAY, BETTER BENEFITS, BETTER WAY OF LIFE
DO IT FOR YOURSELF PUT THE BACKBONE
BACK IN YOUR FLESH GIVE YOUR LIPS A REST
UNCLE FRED IS BACK! Been kinda busy but I see that you boys and girls havent been nice here. Have you all been playing with the acid again? Shame on you all. And who's been using my name in vain? Now be good and continue playing.
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