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New Budget NASA Space Science Missions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-needs-science dept.

pertinax18 writes "The New York Times is reporting that 'Some of the most highly promoted missions on NASA's scientific agenda would be postponed indefinitely or perhaps even canceled under the agency's new budget.' This looks to directly impact the types of missions that have been NASA's greatest successes like the Mars Rovers. 'Among the casualties in the budget, released last month, are efforts to look for habitable planets and perhaps life elsewhere in the galaxy, an investigation of the dark energy that seems to be ripping the universe apart, bringing a sample of Mars back to Earth and exploring for life under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa'"

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  1. Their 5 year mission... by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uhura: Captain, I'm getting an urgent communique' from Starfleet HQ
    Kirk: Put in on the main screen
    Uhura: Aya
    Commander: Jim...
    Kirk: Commander Wilkes! What brings us the pleasure of your visit?
    Commander: Jim, I have some bad news.
    Kirk: Not another shippment of tribbles, heheh
    Commander: Jim, this is serious. We're ... you know that 'five year mission' bit?
    Kirk: Yes
    Commander: Well, we're going to have to cut it back to one ...
    Kirk: What?
    Commander: That's right - one year.
    Kirk: (dramatic) Their ... ONE ... year ... mission ... to ... seek ...
    Commander: That give your 3 more months to clear up this planet destroyer thingy.
    Kirk: But ... why??
    Commander: It's the budget Jim. Starfleet's pretty strapped these days, what with the extra patrols in the Romulan sector
    Kirk: I knew we never should have taken sides in their sectarian squabbling.
    Commander: That doesn't matter. It's not for us to decide. We .. have our orders. And you ha..
    Kirk: What about ... new life, new planets ... boldly going ...
    Commander: It's "to boldy go" Jim. I know, we all feel as bad about it as you do. Prepare to wrap this up in 3 months. That's all.
    Uhura: They've dropped connection, captain.
    Kirk: Sulu, lay in a course for the Altairian sector
    Spock: Captain, the plant destroyer is continuing toward the heavily populated...
    Kirk: Nevermind that. If we've only got 3 months budget left we're going to the planet of the Altairian slave girls...

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