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Preview of Moon-To-Mars Report

Posted by michael on from the whatever-the-problem-privatization-is-the-answer dept.

schnarff writes "Space.com has obtained a sneak preview of the Moon-To-Mars commission report, which will be officially released June 16. The report calls for spinning off NASA centers as FFRDCs, establishing an independent cost estimation bureau, and otherwise streamlining NASA's bureaucracy."

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  1. Acronym abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    FFRDC? WTF?

    (JK. I RTFA.)

  2. rumor by maxbang · · Score: 5, Funny

    I heard a rumor that R. Daneel Olivaw will be helping out here and there, especially with a new technology that can capture approaching comets and mine them for minerals. Can anyone confirm this?

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    1. Re:rumor by Mad_Rain · · Score: 2, Funny

      I heard the rumor that instead of building a base on the moon, they were going to lease Dr. Evil's base for a low low price of -

      [dr.evil]
      one million dollars! mwahaha!
      [/dr.evil]

      Can anyone confirm this rumor too?

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  3. Obligatory Chappelle "Balck Bush" quote by MightyPez · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Y'all need to stop worrying about the middle east and the economy. I got that under control! And we aint stoppin' at the moon. Write this down. M-A-R-S, Mars bitches. We're going to Mars. Red Rocks!"

    "Yeai yeaaaaii!"


    /very ad-libbed

    1. Re:Obligatory Chappelle "Balck Bush" quote by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

      Doesn't the last line technically make this a Howard Dean quote?

  4. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    NASA announced today that with the privatization effort in full gear, Halliburton had been awarded a no bid contract to adminster the entire US Space Program...

  5. Summary by k4_pacific · · Score: 4, Funny

    Basically, the report concludes that moving the Moon to Mars is both impossible and pointless.

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  6. They're trying to! by Pi_0's+don't+shower · · Score: 4, Funny
    Did you RTFA? Check this out, from the link, taken from the lips of head-of-commission Pete Aldridge:
    "The Commission believes that commercialization of space should become the primary focus of the vision, and that the creation of a space-based industry will be one of the principal benefits of this journey," the report states. "Today an independent space industry does not really exist. Instead, we have various government funded space programs and their vendors. Over the next several decades -- if the exploration vision is implemented to encourage this -- an entirely new set of businesses can emerge that will seek profit in space."
    This is almost truly like the obligatory /. joke: 1. Go to Moon 2. Go to Mars 3. Profit! Too bad it doesn't come with a plan on how industry will benefit from space applications.
  7. Streamlining bureaucracy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The report calls for spinning off NASA centers as FFRDCs, establishing an independent cost estimation bureau, and otherwise streamlining NASA's bureaucracy.

    Only in the federal government would "streamlining bureaucracy" involve "FFRDCs" and a "cost estimation bureau."

  8. Article synopsis (C version) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    gcc -O3 -D_OMIT_BUREAUCRACY -o nasa.2.0 -lpriv -lboost nasa.c