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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    "(especially tax money, which supports NASA) stay in my country."

    Then stop blowing up half the world, you imperialist swine. We want nothing more than for your money to stay in your country. Now go back in your SUV, buy a burger and go watch some football.

  2. m"od 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Save Linux from a obtain 4 copy of

  3. Re:Cost Effective? by HBI · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only breaking up we'll be doing is when our depleted uranium rounds strike your body.

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    HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.