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Politics Kills Spacecraft Launch

Posted by michael on from the business-as-usual dept.

Electrawn writes: "Partisan politics became involved in an effort to kill the Triana spacecraft. Triana's mission is to sit in Lagrange 1, a spot between the Sun and Earth and take pictures of Earth as a whole and monitor climate changes. Yahoo has this AP Story on what happened, and also, here is a MSNBC version via the Washington Post. It seems former Presidential candidate Al Gore had something to do with inspiring the space craft, which made it a target for the Republican Congress."

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  1. blah by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Troll
    Democrats good, Republicans bad. Why am I not surprised.

    I don't think this spacecraft is such a loss to humanity.

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