mission and underminedded work of the professionals who fulfill it. we ve seen it in the budget which has risen and fallen with whims but we can see it in the reluctance of those who hold office to set clear, achievable objectives, to provide we sources to meet those objectives and justify not just these plans but the larger purpose of space ex exploration. that has to change. with the strategy i outline today, it will. we start by increasing nasa as budget by $6 billion over the next five years. even [ applause ] i want people to under the context of this. this is happening even as we have instituted a freeze on discretionary spending and sought to make cuts elsewhere in the budget. to nasa, from the start, several
so the point is what we re looking for is not just to continue on the same path, we want to leap into the future. we want major breakthroughs. a transformative agenda for nasa. now, yes, pursuing that new strategy will require we revise the old strategy. in part this is because the old strategy including the constellation program was not fulfilling its promise. that s not just my assessment. it s the assessment of a panel of respected nonpartisan experts charged with looking at these issues closely. despite this, some had harsh words for the decisions we ve made. including some individuals who i ve got enormous respect and admiration for. what i hope is everybody will take a look at what we are planning, consider the details of what we ve laid out and see
say this is what we re going to do, exactly what we re going to do and not pretty talk about it, then i could maybe get behind it but it s so vague, go to the asteroids, sure. how are you going to do is that? what rocket? what caps? what training are you going to use? when is it going to happen? they don t say that. nasa has become a slush fund for favored university studies. look, shep, for every dollar spent on nasa with bad management, we get $7 into the economy. that s pretty good. the state department gets three times the amount of money nasa does and what knows what they do. this is a gps, a handheld gps coming from the space program and it saved my life when i was hunting dinosaurs in montana. i had colon cancer and all that shepard: hunting dinosaurs in
a martian moon. sounds awesome. it did sound great. i wish i could believe what he said was true. i want to be positive on everything. at least he said good words. shepard: he got a big round of applause talking about the partnership. they broke out in applause as he said it. i just wrote a blog called homer shrugs. i just hope that the people in charge of nasa right now doesn t mess it up so bad we can t fix it later. the management team is bad. i don t think that bolton or garver organized the boy scout jamboree. i don t see this happening unless he gets a new team. that s his major problem right now. the managers at nasa, they just don t really have the background
scheduled to retire the space shuttle after three more trips. former president bush made that decision to save money for a return to the moon but president obama canceled those plans because we don t have the money and he wants to make a more modern system. it s angered some folks as nasa, many of whom may have changed their mind as they realize he wants to make it better. folks will invent products we use every day. flat screen television, smoke detectors, wireless technology, all created through the us a piss of nasa. it s pit american heroes, former astronauts, against each other in some cases. with us, homer hickum. what did you think of what the president said? a step closer to an asteroid and