NASA looms large in Houston Chronicle's endorsement of Mitt Romney

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In its Friday edition on Oct 19, 2012, the Houston Chronicle officially endorsed Mitt Romney for president. President Barack Obama’s policy toward NASA loomed large in determining this decision. The Chronicle had endorsed Obama in 2008.

The Chronicle accused the president of having an attitude toward the interests of Texas that “occasionally bordered on contempt.” As an example, the newspaper mentioned the decision not to display a space shuttle orbiter at Space Center Houston near the Johnson Spaceflight Center, even though all of the shuttle astronauts trained in Houston and all of the shuttle flights were controlled from Mission Control at JSC. The Chronicle called this, “The hurtful symbol of this attitude of insensitivity to Texans' feelings was the administration's choice to deny Space City's bid to become home to one of the retired space shuttles.” At the time of the decision, many Texas politicians noted that California and New York, safe Democratic states, and Florida, a swing state, were getting shuttles. Texas is a reliable Republican state.

The Houston Chronicle also offered an indictment of Obama’s space policy.

“The other launch pad ignored by President Obama is the literal one - NASA, and specifically the Johnson Space Center.

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Houston Chronicle Editorial Endorsing Mitt Romney for the Presidency of the United States of America:

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