Originally posted by something wicked
Any president is damned if they commit funding in tough times, and damned if they don't. I'm sure if he had increased funding the republicans would
have had a field day.
Yeah but they can approve more funding for that "war on terror"
Maybe if NASA would stop spending MILLIONS on funding a Religious Institution like Wheeling Jesuit University they might have better luck keeping
their commitments to ESA and our own space program
Funny how the National Technology Transfer Center, the agency responsible for deciding which companies get the spin off tech from NASA is also at
Wheeling Jesuit University
©2011 National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling Jesuit University
The grant is one of nine proposals NASA is funding for a total of $11.5 million over two years, the space agency announced this week.
www.wju.edu...
That is merely ONE grant... there are many. Just search NASA funds millions at WJU in fact here is a
Link to the
Search
This should make every American tax payer and every NASA hugger out there
FLAMING MAD, but by the lack of response to this
thread I see ATS is no longer the forefront of such issues
Maybe no one cares... even when the Office of Inspector General (OIG) found them guilty of wrong doing with those funds. Seems the Inspector General
at least noticed...
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of NASAs oversight of grants and cooperative agreements with Wheeling Jesuit
University (WJU) in West Virginia. Our objectives were to determine whether NASA adequately reviewed WJU’s cost proposals for grants and
cooperative agreements and to determine whether the cost proposals complied with NASA and Federal policy regulations. We reviewed five grants and
cooperative agreements (both called agreements in this memo) between WJU and NASA that were active or not closed1 as of October 8, 2008. (See
Enclosure 1 for details for our scope and methodology.)[/size][/color]
PDF - Final Memorandum on Review of Wheeling Jesuit University Cost
Proposals (Report No. IG-09-020-Redacted; Assignment No. S-09-002-00)
We found that NASA inappropriately approved, obligated, and partially expended more than $4 million of facility and administrative
(F&A) costs because NASA grant officers in charge of the WJU agreements did not adequately review WJUs cost proposals. Specifically, the grant
officers failed to note that WJU had included F&A costs as direct costs in its cost proposals to NASA. During our interviews with NASA grant officers
assigned to review the WJU agreements, they stated that they were not sufficiently familiar with the definitions and allocation of direct and F&A
costs to adequately exercise due diligence to ensure proposal costs were allowable, allocable, and reasonable under the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Circular A-21, “Cost Principles for Educational Institutions” (Revised August 8, 2000) (Circular A-21).
A Government agency... supposedly publicly funded (yeah right) sending funding of millions of dollars to a Religious Institution then screaming they
are strapped for cash? And they are still operating WHY?
NASA = Need Another Space Agency
Or as Robert Bigelow put it when NASA told him NO to launching his private space station...
Robert Bigelow went to NASA to have them launch his Genesis Modules... for his "Hotel in Space" private inflatable space station...
NASA told him NO... and when he went to Russia... NASA was pissed at him. His solution? Buy a partnership in a RUSSIAN unused space launch site along
with a leading defense contractor. More American money going to help Russia's space program.
Robert says... NASA = No Access to Space for Americans
Q: Why do you think NASA has been reluctant to allow tourists in space, like Dennis Tito, for example?
Robert: "Well, it’s the mentality that “we own space.” NASA stands for “No Access to Space for Americans” — that’s what it stands for to
me and to most Americans. NASA has exclusive control and a lock on everything having to do with space, except for the Russian side. And they were just
beyond belief in being rude and obnoxious [in response to Dennis Tito's trip]. It was just embarrassing to this country."
My own private space station
Robert Bigelow has his funding priorities straight: Orbiting cruise ships and paranormal research.
Time to shut NASA down and let the Private companies and the Military get the job done right
edit on 6-2-2012 by zorgon because: (no
reason given)
