Close Encounters of the Vitter Kind

[infrogmation]

I just took a much needed shower. I'd been in the same room as Senator David Vitter.

Vitter was talking at NASA Michoud. I had to leave my camera outside the auditorium. Security specified no cameras, no sketches (! I wonder if I could have been detained if I doodled a stick figure representation of the Senator?).

Vitter's main points:

1) He's a fiscal conservative.
2) He's in favor of adding a minimum of 3 billion dollars a year to NASA's manned space program budget.

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NASA Michoud Gives Vitter Wood

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Despite the prohibition on photos, I wish to note that Vitter did not shapeshift into Reptilian Alien form. While I was watching. He looked pretty much like his photos, such as the one above from a previous visit to Michoud. He was not wearing diapers. Or if he was, they were not evident under his brown suit.

The security reminded me of dialogue in a WWII era Warner Brothers cartoon. "David Vitter is a Stinker!" "That's no military secret. Everybody knows that!"

[fofalex.livejournal.com]

The 'no sketches' thing is a facility rule. NASA secrets and all. I have lots of napkin 'drawings' from other engineers that I guess I could technically rat them all out with.

So he wants to take NASA from woefully underfunded to barely funded. Way to capture the people's will, DV.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if it was a NASA thing. Still, seemed rather strange that on Gentilly Road they have a vistor parking lot for taking Kodak Moments of the exterior of the main Assembly building, while half a block away an auditorium that basically looks like ones in a thousand suburban hotels is SeKR1T.

What Vitter actually wants other than votes I can't say.

Did he explain

[notr.livejournal.com]

where this manned space program is going to GO once we blow up the moon?