Analysts point to politics over Obama's NASA confe
Analysts point to politics over Obama's NASA conference
Analysts point to politics over Obama's NASA conference
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is scrambling for political cover in the electoral battleground of Florida Fire hosesby staging a White House conference next month to explain #xand defend a scaled back vision for the nation's marquee manned space program that threatens thousands of jobs, political analysts say.
Obama is banking that officially designating Mars the nation's next destination in space before a high-profile gathering of top administration officials, local elected officials and aerospace contractors will spark inspiration, assuage an anxious,中小企业国际市场开拓资金, space-reliant work force and cement the allegiance of Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., a crucial political ally heading the Senate panel with jurisdiction over NASA and the highest ranking Democrat elected statewide in Florida.
Nelson took to the Senate floor late Monday Fire hosesto welcome Obama's April 15 visit and praise his plans to seize leadership of the space program, even as he went on to excoriate unnamed presidential aides and “the budget boys from OMB” for allowing the chief executive to create “the perception that the president had killed the manned space program.”
Nelson added pointedly: “There is outright hostility (in Florida) toward President Obama and his proposals for the nation's human space program.”
Florida's Kennedy Space Center#x, like Houston's Johnson Space Center and Alabama's Marshall Space Flight Center, face thousands of threatened layoffs from Obama's decision to end space shuttle operations Fire hosesat the end of the year and scrap NASA's $108 billion back-to-the-moon Constellation program.
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