Prsident Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program

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."

Comments

Hah hah. Very funny.

[Anonymous Coward]

I really hate this stupid f'ing "holiday". . . .

This is obviously an April Fools'

[MrEd]

If the Bush Administration cancelled the space shuttle program, they'd do it by passing a "Space Access Freedom Act". Except it would be better named, and would work out to an acronym of SUPER or SPACETACULAR or STARS or something like that.

Re:I wish they really would cancel it!

[Kymermosst]

I wish they really would cancel it!

That was my first thought, too, upon seeing this Slashdot post.

The shuttle is damn expensive to operate, as this guy points out.

The single biggest problem is, IMNSHO, is that the shuttle was designed three decades ago, and is still a first-generation vehicle. Sure, there have been upgrades, but there is one simple fact: We could build a better system right now.

We have experience. We have new technology. We have a long list of "lessons learned" from the shuttle. We have new partners in space exploration.

With these assets in mind, we could presumably devise a new reusable launch vehicle, hopefully one that reduces cost to less $1500 per kilogram to operate.

Wish I had more time to think about this, but unfortunately, Linear Algebra awaits...