{"id":3743,"date":"2010-02-08T07:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2010-02-07T14:49:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T18:49:58","slug":"the-future-of-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"The Future of NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DaleB sent me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/02\/science\/space\/02nasa.html?exprod=myyahoo\">this analysis<\/a> of President Obama&#8217;s new NASA budget, with the comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One the one hand, the move to evolve from the &#8220;&#8230;technologies we&#8217;ve developed in the &#8217;50&#8217;s and &#8220;60&#8217;s&#8221; is good.  But I cannot get over the feeling that this is a big step back or at least off to the side, with no real intention to move forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Opinions in the article are kind of all over the map, with predictions of &#8220;the death march for the future of U.S. human spaceflight&#8221; sallied against the belief that, &#8220;What this potentially gives us is a real space program, not a faux space program.&#8221;  What do you think?  Is this the end of the U.S. space program, or the beginning of an exciting new chapter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DaleB sent me a link to this analysis of President Obama&#8217;s new NASA budget, with the comment: One the one hand, the move to evolve from the &#8220;&#8230;technologies we&#8217;ve developed in the &#8217;50&#8217;s and &#8220;60&#8217;s&#8221; is good. But I cannot get over the feeling that this is a big step back or at least off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}