{"id":87110,"date":"2010-04-16T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/obama-defends-nasa-policy-in-kennedy-space-center-speech\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:37:15","slug":"obama-defends-nasa-policy-in-kennedy-space-center-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/obama-defends-nasa-policy-in-kennedy-space-center-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Defends NASA Policy in Kennedy Space Center Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[04-16-10] U.S. space exploration will reach beyond the moon and further into the solar system\u2019s reaches by 2025, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite criticism from the space industry over his cuts to <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Orion program, announced in February, Obama said that he \u201c remains 100 percent committed to the mission of NASA and its future,\u201d but defended his plans to use federal funding to bring more private companies into space exploration following the retirement of the Space Shuttle program.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to leap into the future, not continue on the same path as before \u2026 The bottom line is: Nobody is more committed to manned space flight, the human exploration of space, than I am. But we\u2019ve got to do it in a smart way,\u201d Obama said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While Obama\u2019s NASA policy has its share of critics, the plan also has supporters in the U.S. commercial launch industry. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> CEO Elon Musk said the President reached a \u201creasonable\u201d conclusion that spending $50 billion to develop a NASA launch vehicle replacement for the Space Shuttle is too expensive. \u201cBy the time President Obama cancelled Ares I\/Orion earlier this year, the schedule had already slipped five years to 2017 and completing development would have required another $50 billion.&nbsp; Moreover, the cost per flight, inclusive of overhead, was estimated to be at least $1.5 billion compared to the $1 billion of Shuttle, despite carrying only four people to Shuttle\u2019s seven and almost no cargo,\u201d Musk said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Bolden Calls Obama s NASA Direction a  Transformative  Effort<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tApril 14, 2010<br \/>\n[04-14-10] NASA Administrator  Charles Bolden told audience members at the 2010 Space Symposium that  U.S. President Barack Obama s new direction for NASA should be seen as a  transformative effort rather than a massive budget cut. \u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">NASA Administrator Addresses Worried Audience at Space  Symposium<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" align=\"top\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tApril 13, 2010<br \/>\n[04-13-10] NASA Administrator  Charles Bolden told anxious audience members at the 2010 Space Symposium  that U.S. President Barack Obama s new direction for NASA, outlined in  the 2010 fiscal year governmental budget, should be seen as\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">A New Path to the Moon<\/b> \t\t \t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tApril 1, 2010<br \/>\nIn December, we discussed the final report of  the White House Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee,  otherwise known as the Augustine Committee. The report found NASA s  current human spaceflight program to be on an  unsustainable\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-16-10] U.S. space exploration will reach beyond the moon and further into the solar system\u2019s reaches by 2025, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a speech at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Despite criticism from the space industry over his cuts to NASA\u2019s Orion program, announced in February, Obama said that he \u201c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}