Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Fox Business"
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Let's increase our already bloated DOD budget by adding an unnecessary layer of useless overpaid admins and their facilities... Air Force Space Command tracks all orbital debris about earth. And NASA has a program with Jet Propulsion Lab identifying and tracing asteroids along with several other national space agencies.
JPL hosts the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies for NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program, an element of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office within the agency's Science Mission Directorate.... and Trump now wants to add another named office LOL!
NEO Observations Program is to discover 90% of the NEOs down to the much smaller size of 450 feet (140 meters), and to do so by the year 2020.
Neil should know this program exists, The US program has been fully funded for 20 years.
Pretending NASA's NEO Observations Program doesn't exist is moronic.
Both NASA, NOAA, DOD with US Air Force work together to analyze, predict, and disseminate weather, solar weather, orbital debris, near earth orbits of asteroids, military and civil public communication and recon satellites including GPS.
Each agency has its own expertise which they share with one another, and make available to the public or defensive purposes like recon, military communication, and extra GPS keep secret.
There is no need for yet another admin branch... it's just stupid.
Perhaps when we no longer use fossil fuels, and have some method like Star Trek to cheaply go in to space (lithium crystals right?).
Such dubious stupidity.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7194
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