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Shuttle Retirement Costs Divert Science Funding

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the robbing-einstein-to-pay-feynman dept.

FleaPlus writes "Although overall NASA funding is expected to increase next year, NASA has announced plans to divert money from its science program to help pay for the expected cost overruns for flying the Space Shuttle safely until its retirement in 2010. A number of science projects are being canceled or delayed indefinitely."

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  1. Re:Painted itself into a corner by bpd1069 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    just another sign of america on the decline...

    move along, nothing to see here

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  2. Re:Painted itself into a corner by Richard_at_work · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The USSR had 9 seperate space stations, including Salyut 1 - 7 (1971 to 1991) and Mir (1986 - 2001).

    Mir - out of 7 components, only 1 was shipped and constructed using the Shuttle (the Shuttles docking port), the rest were launched by Proton and docked manually. If it can be done for Mir, it can be done for the ISS.

    I agree tho that the ISS is getting to be a waste of time and money.