Sen. Shelby’s Pork Lust Forces NASA To Spend $500 Million On Canceled Rocket Program

[Harry Hope]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/28/shelby-nasa-pork/

Sen. Shelby’s Pork Lust Forces NASA To Spend $500 Million On Canceled Rocket Program


Thanks to Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), taxpayers are footing a $500 million bill for a NASA rocket that the agency has no plans or desire to continue developing.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that pork legislation inserted into a spending bill by Shelby earlier this year is requiring NASA to spend millions on the canceled Ares I rocket program through March, even while the agency can’t find funds to begin a much-needed modernization of the famed Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/os-nasa-ares-rocket-constellation-20101227,0,2096166.story

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Oink Oink

Harry

[bluestateguy]

1. If it was up to me, I'd shut all NASA down in Alabama and Texas and move everything to Florida

There need to be consequences for voting the wrong way.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. I'd move it to a bluer state with tons of land

California comes to mind. Just take over Edwards AFB and go from there.

Hawkeye-X

[shireen]

4. earthquakes ...

I remember when Hubble was being integrated in Sunnyvale, CA at Lockheed Martin. It was moved to KSC about a week or so before the 6.5 mag earthquake in San Francisco in 1989.

While i felt very sad for the loss of life and property destruction at San Francisco, i also felt relieved that Hubble hadn't been there when the quake hit.

[shireen]

3. c'mon up to Maryland!

it's a blue state and we have great steamed crabs. ;)

[notadmblnd]

5. I bet someone had plans to make that half a billion dollars disappear.