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Would JFK Approve of Shuttering the Space Shuttle?

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    Former president committed America to space exploration

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Meanwhile.

Today's final shuttle landing just about fifteen minutes from right now is closing a door on -- space exploration missions started with president John F.

Kennedy.

H shares to go to La mode and -- detained and do the other things not because they -- easy but because they -- aren't they can't -- Well served to organize and they -- -- best.

Of our energies and skills because that challenges one that we're willing to accept.

One we aren't willing to postpone.

And one we intend to win.

There -- launches its face -- race which we won but would JFK have approved of president Obama's current plans for outer space exploration.

And find its conservative columnist with Irish central he joins us live from San Francisco morning -- -- Good morning Steve are you -- fine thank you very much we should point out that this facials gonna land in about fifteen minutes folks we'll see it live right here.

You say I I read you're column for the Irish central you say that John F.

Kennedy.

Would never let this happen the end of manned space flight here in the United States.

That's true saying Kennedy was a very charismatic leader that inspired our country.

To go beyond its limitations.

And -- always pushing us forward in space was.

Plates were that the frontier that we really needed to explore you'd never would have let this happen we would have at least.

A next generation of -- flight taking us up into space right now right.

But our current president United States George W.

Bush has said let's -- -- go to the move back to the moon go to Mars let's go way out there but this president pulled the plug on it because he said it's not worth the money.

Well I don't agree and I don't think a lot of Americans agree and we were when president Kennedy.

Had us go to the moon and that inspired us and and we need to keep doing that's probably something that's.

Doesn't seem like it's worth the money to some but -- where our future risks and a great leader would would have us up there.

And -- flight going to them in in going to the other planets.

You know -- the irony is going forward that if we wanna go up to the International Space Station we're gonna have to hitch a ride with the Russians.

The so called evil empire which John F.

Kennedy -- -- hated.

Exactly and I think they're charging -- between fifty and sixty million dollars per astronaut that would buy an awful lot of space shuttle fuel.

For our own space shuttles or other crap to get us up there and it's ironic -- that.

July 20 1969 is when we landed on the moon in July 21 right now 2011.

It is our last landing of our space shuttle.

Very ironic it is ironic and it's bittersweet as we countdown to the shuttle landing here in just about thirteen minutes from right now ahead.

You know because when you look -- manned space flight in this country.

It is off as you mentioned inspirational -- it's what all those movies are made about and stuff like that now what.

Well that's that's the -- Steve is that when when when you have a great leader that knows how to inspire the country and unite us.

We can work together we can do anything.

And that's what president Kennedy did even -- life was cut short.

He had a vision for us and we worked together in -- -- the unattainable and we need to we need to have that vision again right now we don't have that we're little we're adrift.

We do not have a common goal once we have.

A common goal the American.

Public can do anything in our country can can attain anything and in John Kennedy demonstrated that spirit to us well we've had a a fantastic fifteen years in space with Americans.

Manned space flight.

Program that ends today.

Just about twelve minutes from right now -- barn and from Irish central where he has columnist Ed thank you very much for getting up really early out there in San Francisco to.

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