As a former Special Assistant to the first Astronaut to be Head of NASA, and part of the post-Challenger fixit team, I've been very interested in the President's announced plans for NASA. I am also running for a seat in the US House of Representatives which runs from Houston to Austin. The Texas Delegation has been united in it's stance that his plan is putting the nation's human space flight efforts in jeopardy. It's also clear that having Houston's Johnson Space Flight Center Representative and Texas' two Senators from the "Just say No" party hasn't helped. The half of the President's plan that is right is to increase funding for the Earth observing and the robotic deep space exploration missions, and to move routine access to the Space Station to private companies. The problem with the human space flight mission is that it fails to have any concrete goal that excites the American public. I have a plan for that.
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