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Posted by Jonathan on February 1, 2010, 5:56 pm
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> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:29:06 -0800 (PST), Matt Wiser
>>But congress has to approve, and many members with ties to NASA have
>>already vowed to
>>fight this proposal.
> ...It's one of the reasons I've always felt that funding for manned
> space should not be controllable by Congress, because something this
> important can't be trusted to skirtchasers whose only interests are
> pork barrels and what page boys they can pork.
Oh my god, the worst thing that could possibly happen is
to let the rocket scientists decide space policy.
They'd have us building wasteful and useless Saturn V's,
lunar landers and stuff no one wants or needs.
Oh that's right, that's what they tried to do.
You folks are just too dense to realize that
flushing a program after spending $9 billion
is a fiasco born of corruption. When an
industry gets to write it's own ticket, disaster
happens. Bush let Big Oil write the Energy bill.
He let Big Pharma write health care legislation
and he let Lockheed brow-beat the nation into
another moon-shot.
And this is what happens...just like letting Wall Street
perform it's own oversight and......CRASH!
Goes the whole ball of wax.
And what makes me even more disgusted is that
no one here seems to grasp what a golden opportunity
awaits for a new far better goal.
Now that the trash (The Vision) has finally been
bagged and tied.
s
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> their wishes....
> Moon-travel boosters. The budget adds $6 billion to NASA's budget over
> five years, extending the International Space Station, but it abandons
> the Constellation program to return humans to the moon. Instead, it
> directs NASA to invest in the development of U.S. commercial space
> taxi services to ferry astronauts to the space station.