{"id":193259,"date":"2009-01-04T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/04\/obama-getting-rolled-by-pentagon-and-nasa\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T02:09:00","slug":"obama-getting-rolled-by-pentagon-and-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/04\/obama-getting-rolled-by-pentagon-and-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Getting Rolled by Pentagon and NASA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It now appears that people in the Pentagon and in NASA are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=washingtonstory&amp;sid=aOvrNO0OJ41g\">feedinb Obama and his transition team scare stories about a Chinese manned program to the moon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.\u2019s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The argument is that the Chinese will be able to put a man back on the moon before the US&#8217;s goal of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that planting a flag on the moon means nothing.<\/p>\n<p>That China is making strides in space development is true, and the military implications are a legitimate concern, and the idea of replacing NASA&#8217;s Ares vehicles with existing vehicles, which means military launchers because NASA has meticulously destroyed the opposition on their end, is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>But this whole &#8220;race to the moon&#8221; thing is 6 pounds of sh%$ in a 5 pound bag.<\/p>\n<p>If Obama and his team believe this, I have some ballots in Florida for them to count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It now appears that people in the Pentagon and in NASA are feedinb Obama and his transition team scare stories about a Chinese manned program to the moon: President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.\u2019s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1006,1036,1037],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-nasa","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}