Stephen Smith 🇺🇦  

Fourteen years ago today, on April 15, 2010, President spoke at the Operations and Checkout Building to detail his plans to reform NASA.

(His proposals were largely rejected by Congress, whose members wanted pork, not reform.)

youtube.com/watch?v=3htW3AUOGA

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Stephen Smith 🇺🇦  

While spoke at , Tea Party protestors were gathered on NASA Causeway outside the gates, spewing lies that foreshadowed rhetoric to come later in the decade.

youtube.com/watch?v=E8n-lBRTaK

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Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
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In retrospect, perhaps the most significant event that day was the visit to at Launch Complex 40. Obama was given a tour by a clearly nervous Elon Musk. Obama committed to reform that would end the government monopoly and open space to competition.

This raw video of the tour was released last year by the Obama Library.

youtube.com/watch?v=CKY4DwTDxk

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