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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Cruz to NASA: Just ignore climate change and focus on space exploration
http://thespacereporter.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-to-nasa-just-ignore-climate-change-and-focus-on-space-exploration/One of the most prominent skeptics of climate change has been Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and he leaped at the opportunity to battle with a NASA official who appeared at a Senate subcommittee hearing, questioning why the agency should be spending money focused on such missions.
Many suspect that Cruz, a possible 2016 presidential candidate, is eager to cut funding to NASA to help halt climate change research, and he sparred with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden over why Congress should continue to fund the agencys dual missions of studying space from Earth and studying Earth from space, according to a Christian Science Monitor report.
Cruz is the new chair of the Senates subcommittee on space, science, and competitive ever since the Republican Party swept the midterm elections and retook control of the Senate. Hes used his new position to push the idea that NASA should be focused more on space and less on Earth.
During a hearing on President Obamas $18.5 billion budget request for NASA for fiscal 2016, he started out by asking NASA Administrator Charles Bolden what the core mission of NASA is. Bolden responded that the core mission from the beginning has been to explore space and the Earth environment.
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Ted Cruz to NASA: Just ignore climate change and focus on space exploration (Original Post)
jpak
Mar 2015
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Johonny
(20,941 posts)1. NASA started Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) in the late 1980s
Modern Republicans are so dumb and out of touch they don't even remember the programs their party helped start. I can't respect a single person that votes Republican. How can anyone think Ted Cruz is qualified to help guide a space program? He apparently doesn't even know the basic history of NASA programs and why it does the programs that it trying to do.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)2. NASA to Cruz:
What are the orbital dynamics involved given a flat Earth?
wcmagumba
(2,893 posts)3. Maybe this....
Perhaps Ted thinks something like this:
<img src="" alt="[Image: Turtles-All-The-Way-Down1.jpg]"/>
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)6. millions of Senator O'Connell's .lol
wcmagumba
(2,893 posts)7. That Little Mitchy...
Guess you could say Mitch is holding things up!
n2doc
(47,953 posts)4. Nasa should agree, so long as Ted goes on the first mission
one way trip to Uranus.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)5. NASA should construct a huge " fuck you ted cruz" satellite in space
There is already a response to him in space
Aerows
(39,961 posts)8. Dear Texas Republicans
in Galveston, when you are completely underwater, remember this is what you voted for.
spanone
(135,920 posts)9. an insult to scientists everywhere.