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US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the give-ya-five-bucks-for-it dept.

greysky writes "On the 45th anniversary of his first trip into space, astronaut John Glenn says the U.S. is not getting it's money's worth out of the International Space Station. From the article: "Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost to President Bush's goal of sending astronauts back to the moon and eventually on to Mars is preventing some scientific experiments on the space station"."

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  1. oblig. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell the President there's oil on the ISS.

    1. Re:oblig. by killproc · · Score: 5, Funny


      trying not to be an apologist, but fer Christ's sake, I would thing that most Yale graduates can grasp the concept of a space station.

      I can understand if you dislike the man, but he's likely "at least" as intelligent as you are, based on your comment history.

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