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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. Obvious solution.. by gentimjs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just swallow the pride and buy a few Soyuz .... too bad its built in the wrong congressional district .... :-(

  2. NASA by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is despicable. We need to ensure that our astronauts are up in space. Down here, they try to kill each other.

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    1. Re:NASA by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is despicable. We need to ensure that our astronauts are up in space. Down here, they try to kill each other [cnn.com].

      At least this didn't happen on the way to Mars.

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  3. Not such a Bad Idea... by errxn · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...considering that as of this morning, the Shuttle crew has turned into its very own episode of the Jerry Springer Show.

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