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H.R. 3057: To the Asteroids, Moon and Mars
apsmith writes "Democrats have just introduced the Space Exploration Act of 2003 to the U.S. House of Representatives; the author is Nick Lampson of Texas, with 26 co-sponsors. The bill sets a vision and goals for the future of NASA, beyond the Low Earth Orbit of the Space Station and Shuttle, outlining a series of incremental steps for human spaceflight. These include development of reusable spacecraft for carrying people around in the Earth-Moon vicinity, including to the nearby Lagrange points; sending people to an Earth-crossing asteroid; establishing a lunar base, and sending people to Mars with a base on a Martian moon by 2024."
Please, send Senator Orin Hatch on the Earth-crossing asteroid mission. The guy is a space-cadet already!
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What they need to do is say there are terrorists with WMD massing on the moon. Then NASA can get $87 million too.
Yeah men's college basketball and football have been completely wiped out of existence. I remember when you used to be able to watch those games on television!
Sounds good to me, just don't do any transdimensional experiments up there.
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
HR 3057 already sounds like the name of a spacecraft...
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I'm glad to see something new for manned spaceflight. The shuttle missions are not as insipiring as they used to be. I'm going to write my congresswoman Linda Sanchez to propose a Battle School for the bill, just in case we find any buggers on Mars.
Honk if you're horny.
"You are aware, Congress, that you can't legislate the advace of technology right?"
Sure you can. When President Kennedy was sworn into office in 1961,
Of course, last I checked, President != Congress.
> How about resources? The Moon has resources that could be mined for use
:)
Okay, as long as I get me some Moon Cheese, and some yummy Moon Pies, I'm okay with the whole thing.
If they can legislate innovation can't they legislate more jobs? Or are they too busy legislating.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you capsule fanatics? I have recently upgraded from an Apollo Command Module to a new Soyuz TMA-4 to help me at my freelance gig at the ISS where I needed to copy a 17 Meg file from my home network to a desktop folder. On the TMA-4 it took about 20 minutes. At home, on my STS Orbiter, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this capsule, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, my navigation computer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various capsules, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a capsule that has run faster than its reusable spaceplane counterpart, despite the capsule's faster chip architecture. My Dyna-Soar is faster than this Soyuz at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the capsule is a superior machine.
Capsule addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a capsule over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Get thing, want send thing to space.
Thing heavy, need fuel and vehicle. Mainly fuel.
Oh no. Vehicle and fuel expensive. Total energy cost to move mass won't listen to my personal bullshit.
Blame on lazy bastards at NASA. Where perpetual motion machine I ask for?
Grunt. Snort. Fart. Belch.
Here is what i would do: 1. Cut all Social Programs down to zero! (Sure this may seems mean and mean spirited but there is too much port and fat being spent.) 2. Take half the money saved and throw it at NASA. Of course i would fire a whole bunch of people and personally oversee the re-construction of NASA) 3. Take about 15 billion dollors and use it get some good engineers working for both NASA and for JPL and all the other placed like Lockhead Martin. 4. Then I would institute a crash program to establish a moon base in 6 years. I would even revive the Saturn V or use Russian Heavy lifters if I had to. I would also teach those dimwits at Lockhead about a nice invention Mr. Ford Pioneered called "The Assembly Line". I would also have a competition to create a "Model T" of outer space for a space tug. 5. Set up big Tax incentives that would only be met for companies as long as the program goal was met. Example. Tax Cut for landing on the moon 100% if land 5 people on moon by 2006 50% if land people on moon by 2007 25% if land people on moon by 2008 0% if no landie 6. Transition the entire ball of wax to private industry by 2010 and fund the entire ball of wax through tax inccentives that are almost permanent. 7. profit
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Then how did Sen. Al Gore invent the internet?
By pissing on a transformer.
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