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...Obama cancelled the National Aeronautics and Space Administration program to build a next generation spacecraft to travel to the International Space Station and the moon, essentially “grounding” our human space flight program There are only four more scheduled space shuttle flights remaining. Following this, American astronauts will rely on Russian rockets to travel to the space station and back...
...accounts for only 0.6 percent of the federal budget. And while it is true that there are many important issues to deal with and many projects that need funding, the scale of NASA’s funding pales in comparison to the 150 billion dollars spent bailing out American International Group, the nearly 130 billion dollars spent bailing out the auto industry, the 663.8 billion dollars allotted for the Defense Department budget, or the 1.58 trillion dollars allotted for social programs. The Department of Health and Human Services spends the equivalent of the annual NASA budget every 7.5 days. Support...
...only have American accomplishments in space instilled in us a sense of national pride, but they have also allowed us to reach across our borders and collaborate with other countries in spite of our diplomatic disputes. By creating an international space program, the U.S. has brought together many countries around the globe to work on a complex engineering project during peacetime. The United States has always been a country of action. In the midst of “change we can believe in,” human space exploration is vital for a country whose course of action isn?...
...Harvard Crimson: You are often hailed as the American opera singer of our time, an American musical statesman. What do you think of this role...
Renée Fleming: I love that. As an American, I’m not pigeonholed into a specific repertoire. I’m allowed to sing in any language. Ninety percent of the time, I’m singing in 8-10 foreign languages. It’s very fun as an American to be able to display this eclecticism that we have...