{"id":3926,"date":"2013-08-12T21:07:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3926"},"modified":"2013-08-12T21:07:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T21:07:27","slug":"the-space-show-rick-boozer-and-the-plundering-of-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3926","title":{"rendered":"The Space Show: Rick Boozer and the Plundering of NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Boozer is currently on The Space Show<\/a>.\u00a0 He will discuss his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9, How pork barrel politics harm American spaceflight leadership<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/em>, in which he presents the case that NASA’s SLS super heavy lifter project<\/a> is a huge waste of taxpayer money and that space development and exploration with competitive commercial space transportation would be vastly more cost effective and would greatly accelerate progress in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Boozer is currently on The Space Show.\u00a0 He will discuss his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9, How pork barrel politics harm American spaceflight leadership, in which he presents the case that NASA’s SLS super heavy lifter project is a huge waste of taxpayer money and that space development and exploration with … Continue reading The Space Show: Rick Boozer and the Plundering of NASA<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-policy","category-spacecasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-11k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3363,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3363","url_meta":{"origin":3926,"position":0},"title":"Spacevidcast: The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Astrophysicist Rick Boozer discussed his new book, The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9 (available as a Amazon ebook and in paperback at Lulu.com) on\u00a0 SpaceVidCast on July 6th.\u00a0 Here is the video of the program: http:\/\/youtu.be\/Z5j9JmPI8SY Update: Here is the Spacevidcast page for this show: The Plundering of NASA: An\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Activism"","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&l=as2&o=1&a=B00CQQ3MQK","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6712,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6712","url_meta":{"origin":3926,"position":1},"title":"Spacevidcast 7.06 – Will private space kill the Space Launch System?","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 2, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Rick Boozer, author of The Plundering of NASA: an Expos\u00e9, was a guest on the latest episode of Spacevidcast: http:\/\/youtu.be\/pSGn19OM_nA Caption: If you get value from Spacevidcast, help by putting value back in the show!\u00a0http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/spacevidcast\u00a0will keep the show going. 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It lays out the mess that NASA human spaceflight policy is in, how it got that way, and how to fix it. 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