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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. Not Quite True by Moby+Cock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    seems like a strange state of affairs when a magazine can take people to space, but the USA can't.

    More like the USA won't. It is really a matter of priority. Bush and his cadre are focused on their idiodic Persian Excursion.

  2. Re:Sorry, but I had to by silentounce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You didn't have to. That is specifically to stir the pot. There is no other purpose for such a statement. Since when is flamebait modded as insightful?

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    There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think. -Victor Hugo
  3. Re:Sorry, but I had to by LordPhantom · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When it's an insightful statement? Something -can- be flamebait AND insightful, in theory.

    Sometimes the truth hurts?