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NASA Reconsiders DAWN Mission Cancellation
amstrad writes "Last month, NASA decided to cancel the DAWN mission to Ceres and Vesta citing 'technical difficulties' and 'budget overrun'. Monday, NASA released a statement reinstating the mission." From the article: "The decision to cancel Dawn was made March 2, 2006, after about $257 million already had been spent. An additional expenditure of about $14 million would have been required to terminate the project. The reinstatement resulted from a review process that is part of new management procedures established by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. The process is intended to help ensure open debate and thorough evaluation of major decisions regarding space exploration and agency operations."
If you look at the facts, you'll see just how greatly Bush has increased science spending. He's stealing our money at gunpoint to give way too much of it to science. Why would you claim otherwise? Just don't pay your part of the huge Bushie funded science, and you will go to prison.
Instead, the government should spend money on people. Welfare and public housing help people educate themselves to get better jobs. Public education helps the future poor. It helps everyone, especially the poor. Instead, the Shurb has increased spending for NASA greatly and science in general. That only helps the technical elite rather than the people. Of course the Shrub only cares about the rich and educated as shown by his increases in science spending over increases in funding that helps the people.
Again, stop pushing the Repukian lie that the Shurb isn't increasing science spending. He is. It is our money he is taking. You Bush worshipers make me sick.
...with expensive shuttle flights instead of cost effective robotic science exploration.