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Back to Moon in 2015?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-the-rocks-are-at-the-smithsonian dept.

Mistress.Erin writes "NASA has announced they may send astronauts back to the moon as early as 2015, and may build an international base once they get there. From TFA:"The next mission to land a man on the moon will take place in 2015 at the earliest, the new chief of the United States' space program said on Monday, adding the mission could be followed by the construction of a multinational space station there. But NASA has not yet decided what vehicles will be used to reach the moon, or what will succeed the aging space shuttle fleet, which is due to be retired in 2010.""

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  1. Rule of the gun. by glrotate · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or do you think Kofee Anon is going to preside?

  2. Re:Misplaced priorities? by Thanatopsis · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Illegal immigrants pay roughly $9 billion a year into the Social Security fund. How? They supply their employers with false social security numbers which the employer then withholds the appropriate Social security. Most of the people who are illegal aliens are not being "payed" (nice spelling) under the table. They hold a normal job and usually have a set of docs that look normal. Employers cannot screen whether or not a Social Security number is real. Btw those immigrants will never collect Social Security as they don't have a Social Security number.

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  3. why not use the $ for universal healthcare? by Cryofan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    instead of wasting it on moon travel?

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