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NASA Task Force Recommends Radical Changes

darrellsilver writes: "As reported at the nytimes (free reg, etc) here and msnbc here, an independant task force initiated in July by the now resigning Dan Goldin concluded this week that "radical changes" need to be put into place if the space station is to continue functioning. The full report in PDF format is available from NASA here." We've reported on this before but we didn't have a link to the report itself. Budgetary woes have already taken their toll on the station and this report is recommending even more cuts.

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  1. Aw y34h by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp styl3 w1t' th4 g4ng5t4 h1t5, f00

  2. Re:budget cuts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    by gawd, if your comment does not get modded up, there is no damn sense nor reason left... oh, but wait... i forgot this is /.

  3. Budget Cut?... 3 words: by Thaidog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Estes, Model, Rockets.

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    ||| I still can't believe Parkay's not butter.

  4. Re:Cost & Schedule vs. Safe & Right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Instead of re-writing this post, would it not be better to learn from it? For example, the misspelling of the simplest of words such as "embrace" and "alienate" and "personally" is instructive if only to serve as a reminder that spellcheckers are available and should be used by at least 99% of the people that post at /.

  5. standardize on hexadecimal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nuff said.

  6. Re:YHBT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hoo ha... the last resort of a truly dimwitted chump: a lame-assed dismissal from one who does not know his betters. Troglodyte!

  7. Geekizoid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's happened to Geekizoid.com? Where do all the trolls congregate now?

  8. Re:About Time! by John+Zero · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    How about that "other" project, called military, getting $260 billion/year?
    Now, that's a real ego project.

    The ISS is built by several nations.

  9. Better Idea by redcliffe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Swap the money that the military gets with the money that NASA gets. So NASA would get what the current military budget is, and the military would get what NASA currently gets. This would fix numerous problems. Firstly man would be on Mars within a decade and cheap access to space would be realised. Secondly, the USA wouldn't be a superpower so there would be no reason for anyone to attack them.

    A win-win situation. Simple.

    1. Re:Better Idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      gonna have to rip that spoon outa your chicken fuckin arse.

  10. Re:The ISS isn't about science... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So give them all green cards and save the billions of dollars wasted every year on the Great White Orbiting Elephant.

  11. Re:PS. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thats right run off to work your ass for the sailors, you cum guzzlin reacharound addict. So try to stem the flow of shite from your crapflood and get back to raping cotdeaths you fuck.