Kill NASA – Kill Dreams!
By Pat Redmond
It started in the fourth grade. My daughter launched her first rocket. It was the beginning of a dream. In the next several years, she won two national science competitions, will return to NASA’s Goddard for a second internship this summer and will attend Georgia Tech in the fall to study Aerospace Engineering.
Chrissy’s dream is to work for NASA, not for a summer… but for a career. But she’s watching her dream disappear as the President’s proposed NASA budget cancels the Constellation Program, the only current replacement for the Space Shuttle, in the very same year that the Space Shuttle will be retired. This cancellation effectively ends our country’s human exploration program beyond Low Earth Orbit. It also places our ability to perform human spaceflight on the Russians as well as the shoulders of an immature and unproven commercial space market.
Of course, Chrissy’s not the only one affected. At a time when job creation is highest among our nation’s concerns, the President’s proposed NASA budget would cut many thousands of high tech jobs across the country. Once NASA loses these highly skilled workers, their years of practical knowledge and experience will leave a gaping hole in the agency’s capabilities.
If you’re like me, you watched in awe and were inspired as American’s took steps on the moon and returned home. We all wanted to be astronauts.
What will inspire today’s young people? The study of climate change?
In Chrissy’s own words to our President:
“I keep my laptop background set to a picture of the recent Endeavor launch to remind me to study hard even when my work becomes exhausting and to never let anyone or any thought limit my capability because space is limitless. This summer I will return to NASA as a second year high school intern and I will be studying Aerospace Engineering next fall at Georgia Tech. I am an American teenage girl and NASA inspires me. What will inspire the post-shuttle/scrapped Ares/..so let’s use Russian launch vehicles generation?”
People all over the world admire NASA for its courage, innovation, and persistence: a representation of America itself. NASA’s pioneering in human space exploration provides inspiration to continue to develop innovative concepts in health care, energy, education as well as many other fields.
For the sake of future generations and our country’s future, please send a letter to your representatives. It only takes a few minutes to email or send a letter to your representatives and the President.
For Chrissy’s dream and the dreams of thousands of young American men and women, we must keep NASA and keep America great!
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