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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:Sorry, but I had to by Ingolfke · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Forget space... think about the massive Beowulf cluster we could have built.... OMGWTFBBQ!?!?!

  2. Re:Not the same thing by nospam007 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The Shuttle on the other hand uses 8086 era tech, systems that are so obsolete that the fellow who designed them is not just retired, he is dead, and other such inovations.

    If it does the job it was intended for, why upgrade? Why redesign an entire subsytem to do exactly the same job?
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