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Prsident Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the somehow-I-almost-believe-this-one dept.

CDQZ writes "US President George W Bush declared today that he had signed a rare presidential decree canceling any further expenditure of Federal funds on the US Space Shuttle program."

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  1. Bush is one of NASA's few supporters by Banner · · Score: 1, Informative

    And if you weren't such a Bush hater you would have realized that this isn't really a good April Fool's joke.

    Now something like: 'Bush offers to be among first lunar/mars colonists if Congress agrees to fund it', could have been spun into a much funnier joke that both sides could have gotten a laugh out of.