Ted Cruz to NASA: Just ignore climate change and focus on space exploration

[jpak]

http://thespacereporter.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-to-nasa-just-ignore-climate-change-and-focus-on-space-exploration/

One of the most prominent skeptics of climate change has been Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and he leaped at the opportunity to battle with a NASA official who appeared at a Senate subcommittee hearing, questioning why the agency should be spending money focused on such missions.

Many suspect that Cruz, a possible 2016 presidential candidate, is eager to cut funding to NASA to help halt climate change research, and he sparred with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden over why Congress should continue to fund the agency’s dual missions of studying space from Earth and studying Earth from space, according to a Christian Science Monitor report.

Cruz is the new chair of the Senate’s subcommittee on space, science, and competitive ever since the Republican Party swept the midterm elections and retook control of the Senate. He’s used his new position to push the idea that NASA should be focused more on space and less on Earth.

During a hearing on President Obama’s $18.5 billion budget request for NASA for fiscal 2016, he started out by asking NASA Administrator Charles Bolden what the core mission of NASA is. Bolden responded that the core mission from the beginning has been to explore space and the Earth environment.

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[Johonny]

1. NASA started Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) in the late 1980s

Modern Republicans are so dumb and out of touch they don't even remember the programs their party helped start. I can't respect a single person that votes Republican. How can anyone think Ted Cruz is qualified to help guide a space program? He apparently doesn't even know the basic history of NASA programs and why it does the programs that it trying to do.

[IDemo]

2. NASA to Cruz:

What are the orbital dynamics involved given a flat Earth?

[wcmagumba]

3. Maybe this....

Perhaps Ted thinks something like this:

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[SummerSnow]

6. millions of Senator O'Connell's .lol

[wcmagumba]

7. That Little Mitchy...

Guess you could say Mitch is holding things up!

[n2doc]

4. Nasa should agree, so long as Ted goes on the first mission

one way trip to Uranus.

[SummerSnow]

5. NASA should construct a huge " fuck you ted cruz" satellite in space

There is already a response to him in space

[Aerows]

8. Dear Texas Republicans

in Galveston, when you are completely underwater, remember this is what you voted for.

[spanone]

9. an insult to scientists everywhere.