Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Saturday pledged to Florida voters that he would reestablish the National Space Council to help formulate a vision for the next stage of space exploration and; moreover, he says there will be no cuts to NASA that he had previously set forth while campaigning in the New Hampshire Democratic primary last winter. [VIDEO 1 and VIDEO 2]
The National Space Council, which was abolished in 1993, has been chaired by the Vice-President. The proposed recreation of the National Space Council would place more emphasis on national space policy. [WMFE Radio Report]
Dale Ketcham, director of the University of Central Florida's Space Research and Technology Institute who has been working with members of Congress to get the candidates to talk about space, called Obama's switch "an important move" to making space an electoral issue, reports The Orlando Sentinel.
Obama also pledged that he would back one additional flight of the space shuttle beyond the slated retirement of mid-2010, Spaceflight Now says.
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