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International Space Station: Canada to the Rescue?
Apostata writes "The following story from the Globe and Mail outlines a proposal of the head of the Canadian Space Agency to seek renewed funding for the recently stripped-down NASA budget for the ISS. He makes an interesting point that - contrary to the belief that the ISS is a NASA brainchild/braintrust - many countries have poured $billions$ into it's development and should thus have a say in whether there should be any cutbacks.
Read all about it here."
Who do you suppose built the Canada arm for the space shuttle???
You're absolutely right. Only an idiot would form opinions and stereotypes about about an entire country.
We don't need an international incident here. We're all human, after all. We should be teaming together, to defend ourselves from the Mars Attacks! martians. They are the *real* threat.
Well, if you ask me, that's exactly the person needed for the job. Virtually no engineer, or space buff for that matter, that is given 12K employees and tons of cash to play with, will make decisions that would turn NASA into a space promotion and facilitation agency. You need a bean counter to figure out that it just doesn't make sense to spend ALL that money in not-for-profit ventures. Sure, NASA is supposed to be scientifically profitable right now (with lots of arguments going against that statement in the last 10 years), but by now everyone realizes that it is the private sector that can run self sustained, profitable activities, where scientific achievement is usually followed by economic achievemnt.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.