Space Politic's has a couple of interesting links to pro-space exploration activism and the increasing number of exploration related questions cropping up in the presidential debates but this report of Republican presidential candidate wannabe Rudy Guiliani having a space policy roundtable - and this guy sees Florida as the real start of his election - suggests that there are 5,000 space programme workers and their families who are going to be wanting Rudy to opt for a delayed end to Shuttle
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on January 18, 2008 7:01 PM | Reply
Don’t the people in Florida realize that if congress accelerates the CEV and ARES development that they will have jobs for decades, while if they have a shuttle extension beyond 2010 they will gain only a few years of jobs?
I think that this correlates with a general trend in the US to focus on short term payoff rather than sustainable development.
Those few years will be followed by a massive brain drain from retirement that wasn’t passed on to the next generation and a negative impact on the program. Then what would be the point of the "commonality" with the shuttle components, if the people working on it had to learn it all from scratch anyway?
A bill proposed to do exactly this is HR 4837. Read the full text of the bill at www.actionforspace.com and the write your representative to tell him what you think about it!