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Alternative Launcher For Returning To the Moon

DIRECT Launcher writes, "A grass-roots effort, based around a group of engineers, managers, and others involved in the US space program, is proposing an alternative launch vehicle for NASA to adopt for the new Lunar Exploration program. The new vehicle offers serious performance and cost savings totaling $35 billion over the next twenty years. The proposal was presented to NASA last week. The concept would make possible future Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions after Shuttle has retired, allow for all the remaining ISS elements to be launched after all, free up cash to fund the JIMO mission again, and also allow NASA to return to the moon three years early."

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  1. A note about the song by tkrotchko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's more info on the Song:
          http://www.dailymotion.com/tag/Wig/video/xb1fs_wig -wam-eurovision-2005

    Terrific for all you fans of Hair Nation! Not what you'd expect from the Norwegians.

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    You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you