{"id":574,"date":"2011-02-22T00:04:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T00:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=574"},"modified":"2011-02-22T00:04:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T00:04:41","slug":"space-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Space: The Final Frontier?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We traveled to Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia, over the weekend to watch our daughter Sarah’s team win the State Finals for JV homeschooling basketball girls. \u00a0 After the game, I stopped in the college library where I read part of a book about various U.S. presidential decisions. \u00a0 I was particularly struck with President Kennedy’s “Sputnik moment” (which President Obama recently referred to in his State of the Union address). \u00a0 After the Russians were able to put a satellite in orbit, Kennedy’s campaign promise was he would ramp up the Space Program. President Eisenhower disagreed, believing the money would be put to much better use \u00a0in the form of \u00a0humanitarian aid. \u00a0 During his administration, he nixed giving more money to the Space Program. \u00a0 Some average Joe common sense:<\/strong> \u00a0 We’re going to places (Mars, the moon…) where we can’t breathe the air, there’s no water to speak of, no food… \u00a0 Wouldn’t the billions of dollars be better spent on getting food to the 24,000 people who starve to death every day on this<\/em> \u00a0 \u00a0 planet? \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 President Obama has said we need to go into space in a “smarter” way. \u00a0 Given the dire needs we have, again on this \u00a0 <\/em>planet, wouldn’t not<\/em> \u00a0 going into space be ‘smarter’?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We traveled to Reinhardt College in Waleska, Georgia, over the weekend to watch our daughter Sarah’s team win the State Finals for JV homeschooling basketball girls. \u00a0 After the game, I stopped in the college library where I read part …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}