VIDEO: Obama Kennedy Space Center visit media coverage

by | Apr 16, 2010 | Seradata News | 3 comments

Watch part of president Barack Obama’s speech in the video above. For the second and third parts of this speech go here and here. For more coverage of Obama’s visit to Kennedy Space Center yesterday see below and in the extended portion of this blog post. Find here NASA’s special web page about Obama’s visit and watch here the agency’s video of his speech

MSNBC video

CNN video

Sky.com video

Go here for a video report about the Apollo astronauts who oppose Obama’s plan and this report highlights a 200-person protest (apparently tea party linked) held near to the Center

Watch comments made by Democratic party Florida Senator Bill Nelson and NASA administrator Charles Bolden in the video above

And in this Fox News report the discussion is remarkably calm considering this news channel’s tendency to sensationalise and dress up opinion as fact

While below you can watch CNN Student News’ report about the Obama visit, and apparently “Fridays are awesome”

For an international point of view here is Russia Today’s report on the visit
 
Go here for Kennedy Space Center’s Youtube page for videos of Air Force One’s arrival and departure

3 Comments

  1. gaetano marano - ghostNASA.com
    gaetano marano - ghostNASA.com on April 16, 2010 at 10:17 pm

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    too many expectations on the summit… but everything has gone as already known… clearly a presidential visit to NASA can’t have any “last minute scoop”… so, nothing new has been announced nor happened… now, we might close all the space forums, blogs and news sites for the next ten years…
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  2. Gabe Kampis
    Gabe Kampis on April 16, 2010 at 10:28 pm

    UGH!

    Fox isn’t foxy and RT (which I like usually) picked THE WRONGEST GUY to interview.

    Slip of the tongue? Space Ship Two to Orbit? I think NOT!!!

    Everyone seems to have sand in their eyes.

    Open WIDE:

    The US is GROUNDED! Period.

    The $6Billion promised (actually $5.9Billion) has been spent about for times over. It is NOT ENOUGH to spark viable Commercial (read hobby-shop) manned spacecraft.

    Lockheed-Martin and Orion will actually be the winners. Despite what Obama said Orion will be built with deep-space in mind. And launched on The AtlasV EELV which everyone pooh-poohed at first.

    Orion as a Crew Rescue only vehicle (means the launcher doesn’t need to be man-rated or have the umph to lift an escape tower, etc) …. has anyone tried to figure out the logistics of that? It is laughable!!

    Who can take pride in Pratt&Whitney/Rocketdyne getting a contract to DUPLICATE the EXISTING Russian RD-180 (already ten years old in fact and powering the AtlasV) by 2020?

    Obama jumps on the band-wagon .. “Moon? Been there and done that”. Fact is six spots on a big world were visited. Right, people do feel that mantra ,, but that is not what we want. We want the human race to leave Earth. We want a PERMANENT MOON-BASE! That is a VISION. And it is NEEDED to develop the techniques of is situ utilisation and living/working out of touch with Earth’s support (while only 2 days away not 26 months!).