From the Executive Director: Space Exploration is Non-partisan

Posted By Louis D. Friedman

2010/04/21 05:15 CDT

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by Louis Friedm

I've been getting a tremendous amount of e-mail (and old-fashioned postal mail, too) in response to the new plan for human space exploration announced by the Obama Administration. I thank you all for your messages -- from those supporting the Administration's plan to those that disagree. I am reading them all and discussing them with others at the Society.

I want to deal with one issue that has cropped up in some of the e-mails I've received. The Planetary Society's support of the President's plan has nothing to do with partisan politics. Space exploration is rarely partisan, and even these days, it is still mostly a bipartisan endeavor.read more >>