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Hurricane Threatens Shuttle Program

Posted by michael on from the nooooooooooooooooooo dept.

evenprime writes "Hurricane Frances may end NASA's space shuttle program. John Logsdon, a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and the head of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., has said: 'If there were serious damage to one or two of the orbiters or the facilities needed to process and launch the orbiters, I think it would raise a very large question about the continuation of the shuttle program.'"

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  1. shrug? should i care about the gov't in space? by jspectre · · Score: 0, Redundant

    no.. maybe it's about time the goverment took care of matters on the planet before worrying about matters in space. maybe they should get out of the space program entirely. leave it up to the commerical interests and private folk. look at all the private ventures we see now shooting up rockets quicker, faster and cheaper than what the government bothered to do.

    would it be such a loss if we let the world's smart, bright engineers launch themselves into space and left the fat, dumb-ass politicans at home?

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  2. Aliens... by artlu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe the recent SETI find will bring some aliens to us, and we can travel "Contact" style.

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