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NASA May Have to Buy Trips to Space

Posted by samzenpus on from the hey-buddy-can-you-spare-some-change dept.

MattSparkes writes "Budget cuts could leave NASA without a Space Shuttle replacement, and leave it reliant on private firms to get payloads into space. A similar scenario happened between 1975 and 1981 when NASA made the transition from Apollo to the Space Shuttle. It seems like a strange state of affairs when a magazine can take people to space, but the USA can't."

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  1. Re:Cost Effective? by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If its cheaper than the shuttle, and works just as well, why not?

    Especially if American companies get the contracts as well. Nothing against the Russians and Europeans, but I'm an American and I want to see money (especially tax money, which supports NASA) stay in my country.

    -b.