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"I also want to mention my science advisor who is doing outstanding work, Dr. Holdren is here, as well as NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. ... And it was in the years that followed the Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, that the United States would create DARPA, NASA, and the National Defense Education Act, which helped improve math and science education from grade school to graduate school. In fact, the National Medal itself was established just two years after that launch, as a sign to the world and to ourselves of how highly we valued the work of the nation's scientists."
I too also hope that President Obama will change NASA for the better. I agree that more students should take up math and science. But it is clear that our nation values the work of our greedy bankers more than that of our scientists and engineers. Unless the banking sector is re-regulated so that our smartest people are doing something useful instead of creating complicated bogus securities, we can kiss American manufacturing excellence and our space program goodbye.
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When Keith and I were granted unprecedented access to the internal deliberations that led to the creation of the Vision for Space Exploration (whose deliberations the existence of which I broke on the companion web site Spaceref six years ago this month) we thought this kind of embrace of science was going to be made by President George W. Bush. In his historic speech of January 16, 2004 we heard the words we had longed to hear for many many years-an American president marshalling the resources to send America back to the Moon-back to where we belong. Imagine then our shock and dismay when Bush fell silent on his own initiative, the one and only such initiative launched during the Bush years of which the 43rd President never spoke again. It remains a mystery to me-and to many others-why this was so. But to hear President Obama speak of the history of the birth of the Space Age renews my hope that we have, at last, a President that will embrace space.