Message from the President on NASA's Day of Remembrance, Jan. 29, 2009

Thank You Mr President

for your kind thoughts

I hope those building the "new" rocket and spaceflight operations seeking more funding will keep your thoughts in mind

Thank you President Obama

For honoring the brave souls and their families

and your committment to continue their journey and unlock the mysteries of the unknown at the frontiers of science for the benefit of all mankind

ken

It's a very nice gesture from the White House, but I have my serious doubts he actually pen'd this....

Editor's note: Who knows. The same thing can be said for George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush ... but they all affiliated themselves with remarks written by others as being indicative of their own. The intent is of equal importance. Imagine if the President actually wrote EVERYTHING that his name is affixed to ....

Why does this half picture of obamas face continue appear on this website? Surely we can muster up a full face shot Keith. Is it a takeoff on the Carpenter book picture? It was nice to hear that he cares about the Space journeymen who gave their all.

Editor's note: So that the NASA lapel pin can be seen. Gosh, don't you have bigger things to complain about? Of course if I put a full smiling Obama up then all the Obama haters will start to complain.

I kinda like the picture.

I think this is a nice gesture. It doesn't really matter if he did all the wording himself. He is very busy, you know. The point his he's bothering to take an interest in NASA.

It says "hey, the economy has exploded, we've got two wars and everyone expects me to bring peace to the middle east. But I haven't forgotten about you NASA guys."

And I'm sure he knows some people will get that impression when he signs off on it.

Fun thought regarding who wrote it. If he made a negative statement, nobody would question who wrote literally wrote it. It doesn't matter; his writers can be thought of as one of his communication tools.

Words are nice and comforting but it's money that really talks. The ex-administrator attempted to position the Constellation program as our space infrastructure. Obviously this view isn't shared by the current administration as there isn't anything included in the economic stimulus bill approved yesterday by the House of Representatives which was supposed to be used for infrastructure that is ready to build.

Wasn't it Peggy Noonan that wrote the eulogy Ronald Reagan gave after the Challenger accident?

patience....the senate still may add the funding

I think it's unrealistic to think that any of our senior leaders pen these messages. They simply don't have time. That's what staffers are for. Staffers draft and the leader can tweak. I was very pleased by the tone of the message. We need to just wait and see what will happen, knowing that we won't get clarity til late spring or so.