NASA changes and Political Disagreements

      In The Washington Post, Joel Achenbach writes an article entitled "As NASA transitions, U.S. space politics in a state of flux". As we already know, the space shuttle is going to be retired. Here, he explains the disagreements between what the President wants to do and what Congress wants to do about this situation. Since the government is funding the transportation of astronauts to the space station, the President wants to allow private companies to take this over. Congress disagrees because the Republicans and the Democrats feel as though the economy in their states will be hurt if there is a privatization of NASA.


     This article is worth reading because the future generation will have to make the decision of either making a new space shuttle or buying "tickets on Russian rockets." Whomever is voted into office by 2025 will be the person who needs to make the decision. I chose this article because space, science and technology is intriguing to my generation. It is interesting that politics can even  influence these areas of life.