Sorry HOT.....not really.....but you are yet again pulling something out of your ass, and presenting it for our consideration, without properly examining it. However you are in fine company with a notoriously fact-challenged ass-clown!
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statemen...sa-muslim/
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statemen...sa-muslim/
Quote:
President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."
— Rush Limbaugh on Thursday, March 6th, 2014 in a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show'
Quote:The end of NASA’s space shuttle program
The retirement of the 30-year-old space shuttle program may have happened under Obama’s watch, but the process was triggered during the administration of President George W. Bush.
(Just like that pesky SOFA Agreement that had our asses out of Iraq by 2011, AS scheduled by GWB.)
In 2004, Bush called for retiring the space shuttle once the International Space Station was complete. (PolitiFact looked at the origins of the phase-out of the American space shuttle program in this fact-check.)
NASA retired its space shuttle fleet after the final flight for the space shuttle Atlantis in July 2011.
The goal after that was to have a commercial spaceship to carry American astronauts by 2015. In the interim, NASA is paying for seats aboard Russia’s Soyuz space capsules for missions to the International Space Station. Other countries, like Japan and Canada, have reached the space station via Soyuz capsules, too.
That arrangement will continue for NASA through 2017. Part of the reason for the delay is that Congress has underfunded Obama’s recent budget requests to help private companies develop their own space technology, according to Space.com, a space and astronomy news website.
Regardless, one thing is clear: NASA is not closed for business. The agency has a $17 billion budget and is spending it, Logsdon said. There are satellites en route to Pluto and Jupiter, a rover on the surface of Mars, and work being done on the successor to the Hubble space telescope, he said.
NASA spokesman David Weaver said the agency is working on a plan to launch American astronauts to the space station and not rely on Russian transport, but Congress needs to fund Obama’s budget requests.
