Politifact.com Credits Obama With Another Promise Kept: Use the Private Sector to Improve Spaceflight

Politifact.com gives President Obama a “Promise Kept” grade for using the private sector to improve spaceflight. The website — a project of the St. Petersburg Times — is tracking 18 promises made about the space program by the President during the campaign. So far they score him as having kept three promises (the other two are adding another shuttle flight and enhancing earth mapping) with two more “in the works” (improve climate change data records, and revise regulations for export of aerospace technologies) and the rest with “no action.” Many of the latter decisions are awaiting the Augustine committee report.