Submitted by Anonymous_Asker0813 t3_10q5clz in space
thedrakeequator t1_j6o11vh wrote
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So the reason it went down under Obama was because the "Big Spending" republicans forced him to cut it.
But yes, outside of the cold war it does seem to be random.
Spooky2000 t1_j6o1ylo wrote
>So the reason it went down under Obama was because the "Big Spending" republicans forced him to cut it.
Obama canceled the Constelation project without going through congress at all.
https://phys.org/news/2011-02-obama-five-year-nasa.html
https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/space/02/01/nasa.budget.moon/index.html
But you're right, must have been all those pesky Republicans..
Icutthemetal t1_j6ob76o wrote
Sure he did because he thought they should be focusing on new propulsion and heavy lift rockets to make space exploration cheaper and easier. The constellation project was to return to the moon. Which when you think about it the return on the dollar isn't there. NASAs budget actually increased almost every year under Obama.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-budgets-us-spending-space-travel
tiy24 t1_j6o6xoe wrote
They were attacking him for spending and he cut nasa in an attempt to appeal to republicans who wouldn’t accept military cuts.
Spacecadet222 t1_j6o7jgn wrote
Read it, it's an Obama administration smear. The part about Obama's "antipathy towards American exceptionalism" should have told you this was some editorializing bullshit.
If you don't recall, the Obama administration was at the time trying to pass a lil measure called the Affordable Care Act and receiving withering criticism over it's propensity to swell federal deficits. It's not surprising he made trade-offs for a program his own White House commission deemed infeasible with current funding.
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