NASA’s Constellation Program
Will the Unites States surrender its leadership role in every conceivable area of importance?
The new Congress should demand the reauthorization of the Constellation Program.
Beyond the obvious, of being able to fly ourselves to the Space Station, maintaining the infrastructure and programs necessary for space leadership continuity and maintenance of military, commercial and scientific space projects and research, there are other extremely important reasons to fund the Constellation program.
It is a very sad fact that a history of disastrous policies like this one defunding our space program has left our nation on the brink of surrendering our super power status. In addition to cutting wasteful spending and pumping up the environment for American business, there are some extremely important actions that must be taken if we are to climb out of this huge economic hole we find ourselves in. We are going to need something like the information age explosion to give our next generation of entrepreneurs and business people something they can latch onto and explosively create the next economic boom cycle. The moon shot program funded the science and provided incentive to turn that science into engineerable technologies like the microprocessor. The moon shot program very well could be the single antecedent to our last great economy.
This could happen again, with innovation providing the business world with the cutting edge tools to allow the next economic up cycle to become an explosive economic boom cycle. The United States
The Constellation program, including the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, should be fully funded and reauthorized for the missions proposed by President Bush. Keep the United States
