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...in a campaign speech in February, Kerry said the U.S. government should not be talking about returning to the Moon or going to Mars. Rather, he said, “We need to go to the Moon right here on Earth” by creating high-paying jobs of the future and making sure that “young Americans in uniform are never held hostage” to Middle East oil. In June, in response to an inquiry by Space.Com, Kerry said, “there is little to be gained from a ‘Bush space initiative' that throws out lofty goals, but fails to support those goals with realistic funding."
In a recent email, Kerry space advisor Lori Garver, a NASA Associate Administrator during the Clinton Administration, justified Kerry’s opposition to President Bush’s Moon, Mars, and Beyond Initiative by calling Bush’s plan, “simply hot-air.” The problem with that claim is that the Bush Administration has backed up its initiative with a veto threat of a House bill that not only defunds it, but also contains popular veterans and housing funding.
Not good news. In the Senate Kerry would occasionally push to kill the space station or scale back NASA as 'deficit cutting' measures, despite the fact that doing so is like cutting food costs by skipping the occasional candy bar in the checkout lane while doing nothing about expensive restaurant visits. Apparently he's not changing his views now that he's running for President.
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