In outer space, as everyone knows, there?s no up or down. In space politics, there?s no left or right. It?s an ideologically unpredictable and non-linear universe, one that happens to be, at the moment, in a state of flux.
Consider that, as the space shuttle retires, a Democratic president wants the private sector to take over what used to be a Big Government responsibility ? the job of ferrying astronauts to low Earth orbit. President Obama?s policy shift, announced in 2010, meant the cancellation of a government-owned rocket, the Ares 1. That move drew resistance from conservative Republicans such as Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Sen. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama.
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