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NASA Postpones Shuttle Launch

Posted by Zonk on from the getting-antsy-on-the-ground dept.

Mictian writes "NASA has decided to postpone Discovery's upcoming Return to Flight (STS-114) by a week to May 22. This is done in order to give the agency more time to finish paperwork, analyses and reviews of safety changes made. The delay came as no surprise, since the original May 15 date was always considered preliminary. The current launch window extends from May 15 to June 3."

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  1. Re:All for the best, I suppose. by Snar+Bloot · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Now! That's the government. Financial analyses of NASA have shown that under 10% of its budget is typically put towards expenses directly related to spaceflight, and the rest is research, bidding, bureaucracy, and government waste. That suggests that the cost for private industry to pull this off is $50 billion. On a side note, the Artemis project has a figure less than a third of this value for a private industry moon base.

    So...you're saying that in private industry there's no expenses related to research, bidding, bureaucracy or industrial/commercial waste?

    I think that's an unfair assessment.

  2. Hey Mod! by Snar+Bloot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's on topic. It's ABOUT the topic, dumbass.