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Europe to Join Russia Building Next Space Shuttle
An anonymous reader writes "Development agreement takes shape during the Paris Air Show
It's all but official--Russia and Europe will soon embark on a cooperative effort to build a next-generation manned space shuttle. Speaking at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, France, in June, Russian space officials confirmed earlier reports from Moscow that their partners at the European Space Agency would join the Russian effort to build a new reusable orbiter, dubbed Kliper."
Yeah but that would mean the entire crew would have to transfer their entire tape collection to CD.
You'd have thought that they would have learned enough not to deploy a reusable shuttle based on the bad experience of NASA with these things. It's just not a cost effective way to run a space program.
It is official -- Netcraft confirms: NASA is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered NASA community when the EU confirmed that NASA space share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all space. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that NASA has lost more space share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. NASA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Space Admin comprehensive launching test.
You don't need to be a Putin to predict NASA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: NASA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for NASA because NASA is dying. Things are looking very bad for NASA. As many of us are already aware, NASA continues to lose space share. Red, blue and white ink flows like a river of blood.
The shutte department is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core scientists. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time NASA scientists Brooke "Deep Throat" Miller and Jose Maria "The American Adolf" Sanchez only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: NASA is dying.
All major surveys show that NASA has steadily declined in space share. NASA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If NASA is to survive at all it will be among Open Source Spacecrafting dilettante dabblers. NASA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, NASA is dead.
Fact: NASA is dying
A one-shot jet is what we need. Build it cheaply, fly it across the Atlantic once and then dump it. Smaller, faster, cheaper is the answer. We might lose the occasional load of passengers, but it's gotta be cheaper overall.
One-shot cars, too - I mean, look at all the rust buckets you see on the road these days, it's just begging for trouble. How many of all those annual road deaths could have been avoided if every car was brand new for its one & only trip? Ford & GM agree - buy a new car each day, fully guaranteed for its designed lifetime, then melt it down into scrap & recycle responsibly.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
So? What's wrong with that? As an American, I LIKE having a a bigger penis. I mean, seriously! What guy wouldn't want to have a bigger dick. When it comes to the race of innovation, Americans love showing off our dicks. I mean...it's dick-pride.
Speaking of balls. I really need to get a set of these for my car. http://www.trucknutz.com/bar.asp
Hey, gotta back up the big dick with some big balls...naturally.
Life is not for the lazy.
Turgidson:
Is that the Russian Ambassador you're talking about?
Muffley:
Yes, it is, General.
Turgidson:
Ahh, am I to understand the Russian Ambassador is to be admitted entrance to the War Room?
Muffley:
That is correct. He is here on my orders.
Turgidson:
I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean... begins closing his notebooks he'll see everything. He'll see the big board!
Muffley:
That is precisely the idea, General. That is precisely the idea. Stains, get Premier Kissov on the Hotline.
Apologies to George C Scott and Peter Sellers.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
... must be KDE.
thank you, thank you. please tip the waitresses
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Old Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times"
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Klippy: I see you are building a space shuttle. Would you like me to overrun the budget?
There is truth in humor.