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No More Science on the ISS Until Further Notice

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the privatization-is-the-answer dept.

Dyna-Soar writes "Discovery Channel News is reporting that NASA is canceling scientific research projects on the International Space Station until construction is complete. This may not happen before 2010 or 2012." From the article: "In addition to beginning development of a new manned launch system, expenses to return the shuttle fleet to flight following the 2003 Columbia disaster and delays completing the International Space Station have left NASA with a projected shortfall of up to $5 billion over the next five years"

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  1. Forget NASA -- We Need Space Vegas! by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, Golden Palace Casino...
    I don't think there's any orbital gambling laws in place.
    Why don't you all just be good folks and build us all a Floating Space Casino.

    Who gives a rat about NASA science projects when all we really need is booze and floating space strippers? I bet Space Vegas would finally make us an intergalactic empire!

  2. Good riddance by varjag · · Score: 4, Funny

    The idea of doing science at a tourist resort is ridiculous anyway.

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    Lisp is the Tengwar of programming languages.
  3. Re:Just imagine by master_p · · Score: 5, Funny

    Combine those $300 billion dollars with all the other amounts of money spent by other countries for military purposes, plus all other amounts for stupid things (for example paying athletes millions for kicking a ball), and you get the idea of were money is wasted at.

    With that amount of money, we could start building the NCC Enterprise and finish it in 100 years, while in the meantime discovering antigravity and antimatter warp drive.

    I am a citizen of the world. Everyday I talk to tens of people from all around the globe, thanks to the internet. I feel silly when the world 'war' is mentioned, because I do not have any real differences with other people. All our differences are artificial, introduced by megalomaniac leaders that want to take over the world, but have no more brain that ...Pinky and Brain.

    WE /.ERS MUST START AN INTERNATIONAL MOVE FOR STOPPING ALL PRODUCTION OF WEAPONS OF ALL TYPES OF PURPOSES IN ALL COUNTRIES. THINGS ARE GETTING SILLIER BY THE MINUTE, AND IT IS UP TO US TO SAVE THE WORLD!!!