The just-released presidential platform of the Democratic Party and its candidate-in-the-basement Joe Biden, as reported on Space.com today, lies outright in claiming support for NASA’s space exploration objectives. Specifically, the platform claims Democrats have supported “our continued presence on the International Space Station"; and says, “We support NASA’s work to return Americans to the moon and go beyond to Mars, taking the next step in exploring our Solar System.”
In fact, the Obama Administration in which Biden was Vice President for eight years, attempted to cancel the human exploration vehicles which were supposed to replace the Shuttle in taking astronauts to the International Space Station. Development of these NASA vehicles was so long delayed that eventually the SpaceX company, encouraged by the Trump Administration, was able to develop the rocket and crew capsule which succeeded in ending an eight-year drought, during which American astronauts had to rely on Russian Soyuz rockets to get to the ISS.
