Astronaut Wants Space Program With No Frills

colonist writes "A veteran astronaut wants less comfort and more exploration for future missions. British-born astrophysicist Michael Foale has clocked up 374 days in space, more than any other American astronaut. Foale said, 'We need lean and mean spaceships with no frills', such as toilets or kitchen. However, he would like better oxygen-producing systems for the space station. Foale also talked about the Russians: they played 'some sort of Russian folk song. I'm not so sure it calmed me a lot.' As Foale boarded the Soyuz, an official kicked him in the back: a Russian launch tradition. From space, Foale saw a large black cloud over the Middle East: smoke from a bombed oil pipeline in Iraq."

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I'll just use them all up here...

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'We need lean and mean spaceships with no frills', such as toilets or kitchen.

This new policy would really piss me off.

This would throw the entire manned space program into the shitter.

What will NASA cook up next?

How do they want astronauts to eat? Hang a marshmallow out the port hole to glom off the rocket exhaust?

These ideas are really crappy.

Sure... suggest not having toilet paper on spaceships AFTER you retire, hmm?

Re:Nothing will further space exploration more tha

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People like you and I (and Bush) shouldn't waste our time strainging our tiny little brains to figure out why it won't work

Speak for yourself (and Bush). We're not all HTML and Java weenies round here.