JPL Hippies Won’t Submit to Drug Testing; Crash Global Warming Satellite

In yet another long line of correct predictions, I was proven correct that the United States Supreme Court would uphold the Presidential Directives that all NASA employees working with classified material should submit to background checks, including drug testing and medical history for contractors. That ruling was back in January. No word yet on whether or not the hippies that protested the badging and background checks had put down their bongs and gotten back to work. I do know that one of their projects, the Glory Global Warming Satellite riding atop a Taurus XL rocket failed spectacularly and crashed into the ocean without reaching orbit.

First from a Canadia Rag here:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday to allow sweeping background checks of JPL scientists and other government contract workers, ruling that privacy rights do not prevent officials from digging into employees’ medical, financial and sexual histories.

Research scientist Robert Nelson and 27 other JPL scientists who do not have access to classified material had won an injunction in U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented NASA from implementing the procedures, developed by the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush.

“We’re very disappointed that the court ruled against us” Nelson said.

And then from SanDiego here:

A rocket that blasted off early Friday carrying an Earth-observation satellite has failed to reach orbit, NASA said.

The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Glory satellite lifted off about 2:10 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Glory was launched on a three-year mission to analyze how airborne particles affect Earth’s climate. Besides monitoring particles in the atmosphere, it will also track solar radiation to determine the sun’s effect on climate change.

The $424 million mission is managed by the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

NASA suffered a mishap two years ago when a global warming satellite also destined to join the Earth-observation network crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after launching from the same kind of rocket that carried Glory. The loss of that satellite dealt a blow to NASA, which had hoped to beef up its space-based network of environment satellites. The $278 million mission managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was supposed to track global carbon dioxide emissions.

This is Obama’s NASA. He scrubbed the moon missions and turned NASA into an Islamic outreach program for the space station and is throwing almost a billion bucks into the ocean to study the fictitious global warming. Meanwhile entrenched dope smoking academics in California can’t get a rocket into the sky. Rest in Peace NASA. You used to be so cool.